{"id":19549,"date":"2025-03-11T08:58:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T07:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legionariosdecristo.org\/?p=19549"},"modified":"2025-08-12T19:50:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:50:32","slug":"testimony-of-p-javier-villar-l-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/subdir.legionariosdecristo.org\/en\/blog\/2025\/03\/testimony-of-p-javier-villar-l-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimony of Fr. Javier Villar, L.C."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. He became acquainted with the RC thanks to a Legionary priest who arrived in Mallorca to start an ECyD club. He began in ECyD at age 12, and at 16 he joined Regnum Christi. He served as a collaborator of ECyD in Monterrey and New York. He entered the Salamanca novitiate in 2012 after completing high school. He studied humanities in Cheshire, philosophy and theology in Rome, and apostolic practices at the Everest school in Madrid. 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