Juan de Castilla's goring: "It was a miracle because the horn grazed vital organs."

An atheist should be taken to a bullfight, because there he will see that God exists. This was evident this Saturday in the Bayonne bullring, where a bull from Araúz de Robles caught Juan de Castilla for a few endless moments, violently shaking him in a terrifying goring. But besides the cape the Lord was throwing at him, the Colombian has his back, and he returned to the bull's face to kill it, despite bleeding profusely, and on his own two feet went to the infirmary. "We didn't know what was wrong with him until he entered the infirmary, when he got dizzy and fell . He made a titanic effort, and it's hard to understand how he was able to kill the bull," his mentor, Jesús Salas, told ABC.

"It was a miracle," explains the bullfighter 's manager. "We don't even know how he got into the infirmary with what he had, because they just confirmed to me right now that one of the goring wounds is 25 cm long, ascending toward the anus," in addition to the wound of the same length in the left thigh, which had a second trajectory of 10 cm. But the worrying one was "the one that went toward the rectum, which grazed the rectum, the femoral, and the sciatic nerves. It was a miracle, because it grazed vital organs."

He had a good night, no fever, and even got up. "Now he has to be monitored for 48 hours," although he has already left the ICU: "He's currently being evaluated, not in the ICU, waiting to be transferred to the ward. But since the horn touched his stomach area, he needs to be monitored with tubes, and he needs to be monitored to see how he's doing."

The first thing he asked was when he would be able to fight again. He was due to fight on Monday in Cuéllar, but he won't be able to, but he has his sights set on Dax and Madrid, his next commitments: "He's really looking forward to returning, despite the two gorings he's had," Salas continues. "He says yes, he'll go to Madrid, but first they have to examine the entire stomach area and see how it progresses." It would be in less than two weeks, since Dax is on the 13th and Madrid is the 14th.

"Juan is like that because the same thing happened in Madrid," says Jesús. Indeed, in San Isidro, the first bull of his lot from Dolores Aguirre wounded the bullfighter, who put on jeans after being wounded in a delicate area, and carried on as if nothing had happened. "He had two gorings there, in the penis and the back. No one knew about the one in the back until the infirmary came out, and he didn't even make a gesture. That's Juan." That's what bullfighters are like.