From the October 2009 NC Catholics - "Meet Six New Seminarians"

Ramon I. Garcia was born in West Lafayette, Indiana. He attended high and college in Connecticut, and completed his doctorate in Biostatistics at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a member of Holy Cross Parish in Durham. “My parents and the example of holy priests inspired me to become a priest,” he says, and advises young men who may be called by God to “sincerely confront your vocation. Otherwise you will never have peace. Listen, in silence, to what God wants you to do.”

Ramon cites exercising, reading spiritual books and mixed martial arts as hobbies, and has a special devotion to Saint Ignatius of Loyola and also to Saint Joseph of Cupertino, “since he is the patron of thesis writers and test takers.”