Human beings are capable of the worst and this is confirmed daily in the headlines of the news and this can be seen just by stopping to look for a moment at the fragility that afflicts us. But what’s really true – even if it makes less noise and is more … discreet – is that, without a doubt and more and more frequently, people are capable of the best, in a fertile, creative, devoted, generous and free silencewhich supports the world without us realizing it and ennobles it.
Merit is not an innate condition, it is not a privilege or a fanciful gift, but the patient fruit of a passionate impulse, of constant work and effort, which manages to touch the sublime.
This Friday, the Averroes de Oro PrizeCity of Cordoba 2025, veteran, consolidated and prestigious awards. The recognition of excellence has been their inspiration throughout their fifty-two years of existence, during which, without interruption, they have honored people and institutions protagonists of a exceptional good for humanity in medical sciences, letters and other artistic disciplines, human values and harmony.
This is why the distinctions awarded this year to four exemplary and admirable careers acquire profound value. The surgeon Pedro López Cillero, in medical sciences, is an example of dedication to the care of his patients, the search for technical innovation – with notable achievements – and the vocation of a teacher, expressions of a life to heal and support. Sculpture made of passion and fervormaster of sacred art, craftsmanship is embodied in the hands of Antonio Bernal Redondo, laureate of Arts, capable of extracting living images of moving beauty from inert matter. Francisco Sanchez Madridone of the country’s most important researchers, a leading international figure in the field of immunology, has placed Spain at the forefront of knowledge and deserves the Scientific Research Award for his brilliant dedication to science.
The world is too small for those who fight for justice and peace. United HandsHuman Values Prize, an NGO of the Catholic Church, made up of countless volunteers, weaves a network of fraternity that works for the millions of people in the South who suffer from hunger, poverty and inequality, in the most vulnerable places on the planet. They are builders of hope who dedicate their lives to ensuring that the poorest of the poor are not forgotten and that we are more human, more brothers.
A proverb says that “when the wise man points to the moon, the fool looks at the finger”. The Averroès Prizes They are an antidote to this temptationbecause to reward is to indicate what the human being should aspire to, to show the greatness, humble and true, that he can achieve, to affirm the value of merit and to keep as a perfect heritage that which deserves to last.
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