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Josemaría Escrivá

Spanish Catholic priest and saint (1902–1975)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Escrivá de Balaguer and the second or maternal family name is Albás.

Saint Josemaría Escrivá

Born	Jose María Mariano Escrivá y Albás (1902-01-09)9 January 1902 Barbastro, Spain
Died	26 June 1975(1975-06-26) (aged 73) Rome, Italy
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church, Palmarian Church
Beatified	17 May 1992, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II
Canonized	6 October 2002, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II
Major shrine	Our Lady of Peace, Prelatic Church of Opus Dei, Rome, Italy
Feast	26 June
Attributes	Priest attire Rosary
Patronage	Opus Dei People with diabetes
Coat of arms of Saint Josemaria Escrivá

Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás (born Jose María Mariano Escrivá y Albás; 9 January 1902 – 26 June 1975) was a Spanish Catholic priest who founded Opus Dei, an organization of laypeople and priests dedicated to the principle of everyday

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Life of St. Josemaría Escrivá (1902-1975)

Childhood in Barbastro (1902-1915)

Josemaría Escrivá’s birthplace, before it was demolished in the seventies.

Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer was born in Barbastro (Huesca, Spain) on January 9, 1902. His parents’ names were Jose and Dolores. He had five siblings: Carmen (1899-1957), Santiago (1919-1994) and three younger sisters who died while still children. The Escrivá couple gave their children a sound Christian upbringing.

The Escrivá family in Logroño (1915-1920)

In 1915 the business of Josemaría’s father, a textile merchant, went bankrupt and the family had to move to Logroño, where the father found work as a shop assistant. It is in this city that Josemaría senses that God wants something from him, although he does not know exactly what it is. He thinks that he will discover it more easily if he becomes a priest, and so he begins to prepare himself in the seminary of Logroño and later, after 1920, in the seminary of Saragossa.

The Saragossa years (1920-1927)

With his brother Santiago in 1921.

On the adv

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Brief Biography of St. Josemaria Escriva

The following is an appreciation of the life of St. Josemaria Escriva who has be the inspiration of my adult life for the past 30 years. Today is his feast day.

The bloodthirsty mob had caught the man who looked like Fr. Josemaria Escriva. They hung the poor fellow from a lamppost in front of the apartment building in which Josemaria’s mother, older sister, and younger brother lived.

It was 1936. Spain was wracked by civil war. Because he was a Catholic priest, the thirty-four year old Escriva was sought by the communist, socialist, and anarchistic militias spreading terror in the capitol.

Wearing civilian clothes and his father’s wedding ring, Escriva hid out wherever he could, usually not staying in any one place more than a night. Anyone might turn you in. Once, he and a fellow refugee hid in a stifling attic for hours while soldiers searched the home. Sometimes it was safer for Escriva and his handful of followers to wander the streets from dawn till dusk rather than risk staying put.

One day, Fr. Josemaria got the heartbreaking