Josemaría Escrivá
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Saint Josemar de Balaguer y Albás (1902-1902 – 1976) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest who founded Opus Dei, a group of laypeople and priests dedicated to the belief that everyone is called to holiness by God and that daily life can bring sanctity.
Saint Josemara should be "counted among the great witnesses of Christianity" after he was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2002. Escrivá obtained a doctorate in civil law at the Complutense University of Madrid and a doctorate in theology at the Lateran University in Rome.
Opus Dei's primary role was the establishment, government, and expansion.
The Way, Escrivá's most well-known magazine, has been translated into 43 languages and has sold millions of copies. The controversies surrounding allegations of secrecy, elitism, cult-like activities, and political involvement with right-wing causes, such as Franco's reign in Spain (1939-1955), have been simmering.
Some Catholics and the international press paid a lot of attention to his canonization after his death.
Many journalists who have investigated Opus Dei's past, including Vatican analyst John L. Allen, Jr., have argued that many of these charges have come from allegations of disparaging Escrivá and his group's opposition.
Cardinal Albino Luciani (later Pope John Paul II), John Paul II, Francis, Scar Romero, and several Catholic figures have endorsed Escrivá's teachings on the universal call to holiness, the role of laity, and sanctification of ordinary life.
Escrivá has been "reviled by some and venerated by millions more," Allen says.
Early life
José Marzán y Albás born José Escriva y Albás and his partner, Mara de los Dolores Albuzón, on Monday, the second of six children and the first of two sons, in the small town of Barbastro, Spain. José Escrivá, a merchant and a partner in a textile business that eventually went bankrupt, forced the family to move to Logro, California's northern province of La Rioja, where he worked as a clerk in a clothing store. When he discovered footprints left in the snow by a monk walking barefoot, young Josemara first thought he had been picked for something."
Escrivá is preparing to become a priest of the Catholic Church with his father's blessing. He began in Logro and then moved to Zaragoza, where he was ordained deacon on Saturday, 1924. On Saturday, 28 March 1925, he was ordained a priest in Zaragoza, which was also in Zaragoza. After a short visit to a rural parish in Perpetua in 1927, he went to Madrid, the Spanish capital, to study law at the Central University in 1927. Escrivá was employed in Madrid as a private tutor and chaplain to the Foundation of Santa Isabel, which was founded by the Little Sisters of Assumption and the royal Convent of Santa Isabel.
On October 2nd 1928, a tenacious retreat led him to discover more clearly what he believed to be God's will for him, and he "saw" Opus Dei (English: Work of God), a way for Catholics to sanctify themselves by their secular service. He founded it in 1928, but Pius XII gave it final approval in 1950. "[t]o this mission he gave himself completely," the Congregation for the Causes of Saints' decree, which includes a condensed biography of Escrivá. He was a wide-ranging apostolate in social environments of all sorts from the start. He worked in Madrid's slums and hospitals, particularly among the homeless and sick.
Escrivá fled from Madrid, which was ruled by the anti-clerical Republicans, through Andorra and France, to Burgos, which was the Nationalist headquarters of General Francisco Franco's Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War. Escrivá was able to resume his studies in Madrid and complete a doctorate in law after Franco's victory in 1939, where he defended a thesis on the historical jurisdiction of the Abbess of Santa Marguelgas.
On Sunday, 14 February 1943, the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross, which is associated with Opus Dei, was established. In 1946, Escrivá migrated to Rome. "In 1947 and 1951, he obtained authorization of Opus Dei as a public authority," the decree reads. Opus Dei's founder, with tireless charity and operative hope, aided the growth of the worldwide Opus Dei brand, sparking a huge mobilization of lay people. He encouraged numerous attempts in the field of evangelization and human welfare; he promoted vocations to the priesthood and the spiritual life everywhere. He devoted himself assiduously to the task of identifying Opus Dei members.
According to several sources, he suffered from a disease (perhaps epilepsy) that required him to die quickly, but his mother brought him to Torreciudad, where the Aragonese locals venerated a statue of the Virgin Mary (as "Our Lady of the Angels") dating from the 11th century. Escrivá revived and oversaw the conception and construction of a major shrine in Tortudad during the 1960s and 1970s. The new shrine was unveiled on July 7, 1975, just after Escrivá's death, and it is now the cultural center of Opus Dei, as well as a popular destination for pilgrimage. Opus Dei's members numbered more than 60,000 in 80 countries by the time Escrivá's death in 1975. Escrivá suffered from type 1 diabetes as an adult, as well as epilepsy.
Escrivá was named an Honorary Domestic Prelate by Pope Pius XII in 1950, allowing him to use the name Monsignor. He earned his doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome in 1955. He was a consultant to two Vatican congregations (the Congregation for Seminaries and Universities, as well as the Pontifical Commission for the Authentic Interpretation of Canon Law) and an honorary member of the Pontifical Academy of Theology. The Second Vatican Council (1962-65) reiterated the vitality of the universal call to holiness, the laity's function, and the Mass as the foundation of Christian life.
In 1948, Escrivá founded the Collegium Romanum Sanctae Crucis (Roman College of the Holy Cross), Opus Dei's educational center for men in Rome. He founded the Collegium Romanum Sanctae Mariae (Roman College of Saint Mary) in 1953 to support the women's section (these schools have since been integrated into the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross). Escrivá's secular institutions associated with Opus Dei include the University of Navarre in Pamplona and the University of Piura (in Peru). Escrivá died of cardiac arrest on June 26, 1975, at the age of 73.
The late Cardinal Albino Luciani (later Pope John Paul I) celebrated the originality of his contribution to Christian spirituality three years after Escrivá's death.