MADRID.— Tamara Falcó, Marchioness of Griñón, will be in charge of giving the proclamation for World Mission Sunday (Domund) in Spain on Wednesday 19 and will do so “for free and out of love for the mission”, according to the Director of Works Pontifical Missionaries, Father José María Calderón.
The act will take place in the collegiate church of San Isidro in Madrid, on the occasion of the 400th. anniversary of the canonization of the patron saint of the inhabitants of the Spanish capital, San Isidro Labrador.
The PMOs clarified that the participation of the aristocrat had been agreed for months, given the social uproar generated as a result of the Marchioness’s breakup with Íñigo Onieva, whom she had presented weeks ago as her fiancé.
The ACI Prensa agency recalls that the daughter of Isabel Preysler and businessman Carlos Falcó, who died in 2020, experienced a great existential void before her conversion a decade ago.
The separation from his parents affected him in many ways, including his faith. Nobody then took care of cultivating his spirituality.
His reunion with God took place in a particular way. He was running the summer of 2011 when his father informed him that he would separate for the third time and wanted Tamara to accompany him that time in the field.
She decided to buy readings for the summer and when she entered a bookstore the only copy that aroused her curiosity was a Bible that had a palm tree on the cover. The name Tamara means palm tree in Hebrew. That caught her attention. And although she thought it was an expensive copy—$27—she finally bought it.
It started on the first page and went on and on, hours and hours. She was almost “embarrassed,” she once said. So much so that she locked herself in her room to read and her father had to ask her worriedly what was happening to her.
spiritual journey
Tamara Falcó’s spiritual journey since then has been very Catholic, in the sense that she has received help, training, and guidance from people from different movements and pastoral styles: charismatic, neocatechumenal, and Opus Dei. She has made a pilgrimage to the Medjugorje sanctuary and walked the Emmaus Retreat.
In 2013 Tamara Falcó had a missionary experience in Mozambique, where she visited an orphanage.
On the other hand, in her participation, on Saturday the 1st, in the XIV World Congress of Families in Mexico City, Tamara Falcó admitted that she was experiencing a “horrible awakening” due to the breakup with her fiancé, although “I don’t feel hatred towards him ( Íñigo) nor aberration, I feel sorry”.
“It has been a frightening awakening, but at the same time I think about forgiveness, I think about the importance of forgiveness”, as quoted by the site of the magazine “Hello!”.
“I don’t understand it, I can’t get my head around what has happened, but I think that he and all those who are lost in the shadows deserve to know the truth and the love of God.”
He assured that he believes in forgiveness, something that “I have to work on.”
However, he affirmed that for Iñigo Onieva “I don’t feel hatred towards him or aberration, it makes me sad that with all the wonderful things in life, he considers that those are the things he lives for, that does make me sad” .
She acknowledged that she lives “a mixture of sensations” and that she does not stop thinking about the prayer to the Virgin that she made on her last trip to Maggiore, in Italy: “I prayed very hard that, if my boyfriend at that time was for me, that be done, that we get to marriage and, if not, that please set it aside”.
After the disgust at hearing the news of infidelity, he opened his eyes: “When I started looking back, there were many calls for attention, which went beyond infidelity.”
“I was very excited that, although it was not obvious, God’s project was there. Of course, all that changed radically, not when the images of my boyfriend at that time being unfaithful come out, not only that, many more things fell, it was a domino.