With this panorama – especially him -, the former Minister of the Interior Jorge Fernández Díaz carries a cross, with gusto: the stigma that can arouse his Catholic convictions, to which was added last night the defense of the mysteries and revelations of San Sebastian de Garabandal, Cantabrian village where between 1961 and 1965 the Virgin Mary allegedly appeared to four girls, and I say allegedly because the bishopric of Santander has always refused to give them credibility or endorsement, while the Vatican maintains that “there is no evidence of the supernatural”.

An episode that Jorge Fernández Díaz framed in the eternal struggle between Jesus and Satan, with the singularity that some of those who deny the Marian revelation from the Church itself would be part of the second side.

– This is only understood if the Virgin calls you.

Words from Jorge Fernández Díaz, who participated last night in a dinner-colloquium at the Círculo Ecuestre de Barcelona on the Marian Apparitions of San Sebastián de Garabandal, alongside the family doctor Elsa Martí – precursor of the Spain Initiative with Garabandal – and Montse Moreno, a believer who was cured of a degenerative disease on her eighth trip to the village. “I thought I couldn’t move and I heard something that made me run out,” he explained to this journalist.

Fernández Díaz is, therefore, a firm Garabandalist, as they are known for their extreme defense of some mysteries – which coincided with the Second Vatican Council – in which the Virgin conveyed to the girls that “the cup was full ” in 1961 and that “the cup was overflowing” in 1965, in veiled biblical allusion to the penetration of the devil into the Church itself (which would explain his contempt for Garabandal’s revelations, made to four children and not to the high representatives).

The ex-minister accepts in the manner of Jesus the cross he feels he carries, a burden for which he blames “masonry”, still alive, a force that has not disappeared, it seems malignant and attacks his faith.