This saint was born in Seville, Spain, in 1877 and ordained a priest in 1901. He was assigned his first parish mission in the little town of Palomares del Rio. It was there that Our Lord spoke to him from an abandoned tabernacle, a defining moment in his priestly life. This clarified the direction of the rest of his priestly ministry. A first-class relic of St. Manuel will be available for veneration.