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Canonisation of Saint Josemaría Escrivá, Founder of Opus Dei.

Today, October 6, we celebrated a new anniversary of the Canonisation of Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer. There were several hundred thousand people present in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican. Below I copy part of a Wikipedia article that I found useful for my reflections on this feast day. For details about the Canonisation see: [...]

Feast of St Josemaría

June 26, Feast of St Josemaría Here’s the account of St Josemaría’s death:  On June 26, 1975, Msgr. Josemaría died suddenly in Rome. The previous month he had made his last visit to Spain, where he received the gold medal of his native town, Barbastro, and visited the nearby shrine of Torreciudad, which had been [...]