So, February 8 of 1959 was erected our seminary that was named of Christ Priest, according to its founder will, in commendation of the Priesthood of Christ. The same day the seminary was inaugurated with seven students. In the following days, the rest of seminarians arrived until 14 students were completed.

The life of the seminary, in its beginnings, was a valuable experience of family life, of faith and of trust. Everything was made with rudimentary elements, beginning for the house. The classes were in the dining room, in the corridors of the house or under a tree. The things, in their external appearance, they were in miniature and they gave little security, but it inwardly was the faith of Mons. Alfonso in the divine forethought and the trust of small men's group that without looking at the appearances they undertook the adventure of the vocation.

The strong study, the intense spiritual life, the incipient pastoral, all combined with the material work: cultivation of the orchard, careful to the gardens and grasslands, also the firewood for the preparation of the meals because the electric fluid didn't give for more than the illumination and yet gas was unknown.

Later we thought of the first constructions and, because the seminary was very poor, ourselves had to collaborate in the preparation and transport of materials. Every one helped: priests, religious and seminarians.

The following year, 1960, began with 47 students and the new chapel was almost finished. The seminary grew in its physical plant every day, in number of students and in hopes. At the beginning it was necessary to search for religious neighboring borrowed houses, because Mons. Alfonso in their generosity never looked at the available places in order to know how many seminarians could receive.

The year of 1963 had a special meaning because of the first fruits of the seminary: six priests, ordained by Mons. Alfonso Uribe, eleven days later of himself having been ordained like Bishop.

As usual, also the difficult times arrived to the seminary. In 1966, contrary winds blew against the seminary. It was the time of the "answer" (as marxist style) and the seminary seemed to collapse. We, in that time, listened from Mons. Alfonso the following phrase: "If the seminary is work of God, He will continue to support it, if it is the work of men, it will perish".

Already 47 years had passed from the foundation of the seminary. Its fruits are already more than 1000 priests dispersed for over the world. They are live testimony of the meaning of our seminary, It will continue be glory to the priesthood of Christ, if it continues to be the work of God and not of men.