To the poor, to the eyes

The best lesson received about the meaning of charity was given to me by a Dominican, Antonio Felices, whose biography and character were so extraordinary that it is impossible to gloss in a few lines, as anyone who, like me, had it as a teacher at the school, before seminary, that the Dominicans have in the Royal Arks of Valladolid. Father Felices was born in the Philippines, in one of the few Spanish families that remained after the loss of th…