Blessed Manuel Lozano Garrido (9 August 1920 – 3 November 1971) was a Spanish Roman Catholic journalist and author.
[citation needed] Manuel Lozano Garrido was born in Linares on 9 August 1920; he had seven brothers and one sister named Lucía.
He began suffering from spondylitis and left his position as a soldier due to ill health;on the following year, he was paralysed in full.
[1] Although Manuel lived the rest of his life in a wheelchair and in near-constant pain, he successfully pursued a career as a journalist, writing hundreds of articles for several publications.
On 19 December 2009, Pope Benedict XVI authorized the recognition of a miracle attributed to Manuel's intercession in the cure of Rogelio de Haro Sagra (aged two) in 1972; the child had suffered from multiple organ failure due to Gram-negative sepsis.