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Venerable “Lolo”

Manuel Lozano Garrido, a Spanish journalist and writer, who lived the last ten years of his life blind (although he had been confined to a wheekchair since he was 22 years old), has had a miracle attributed to his intercession, which opens the way for his beatification.

VATICAN CITY, FEB. 20, 2008 (Zenit.org).- A writer who was blind and long confined to a wheelchair, extolled as a model for journalists, has had a cure considered miraculous attributed to his intercession.Manuel Lozano Garrido, better known as “Lolo,” was declared venerable last December when Benedict XVI approved a decree recognizing his heroic virtue.

But, who is Lolo?

Lolo was a young man of  “Acción Católica” (A.C.) He was born in Linares  (Jaén, Spain) in 1920. At the age of 22, a creeping paralysis sat him on a wheelchair. Total blindness stuck him for his last nine years.

But Lolo was a young layman, a christian  who took the Godspels very seriously, or as Martín Descalzo said about him, “He devoted to be a christian. He devoted to believe”. So seriously he took the Godspel that one day someone (Brother Robert Taizé) came around to his house, watched him, listened to him, looked at that stiff tiny body, took the pen and wrote on the lamp shade on Lolo´s desk: “Lolo, sacrament of pain”

But this man of A.C. who kept constant joy in his permanent smile, on the one hand ‘man of pains’, on the other hand sower with joy for the hundreds of young and adults alike who came to him to ask for advice, had a secret, (“Lolo´s secret” the tittle of the biography in comic for children, published by Blanca Aguilar) - Source