Biography, 1946-1960

Expansion

Between 1946 and 1960 Opus Dei began its apostolate in several new countries, including Portugal, Italy, Great Britain, France, Ireland, the US, Kenya, and Japan.
These were years of physical suffering. The Father’s diabetes was the cause of great discomfort: he lived with a constant headache, suffered chronic thirst, and gained too much weight, in addition to the other problems that can arise in connection with this illness.

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Accounts

February 14, 1930 and 1943

“If I had known in 1928 what was in store for me, I would have died. But God our Lord treated me as a child. He did not lay the burden on me all at once, but led me onward little by little.
A little child is not given four things to do at once. First it’s given one and then another; and then another, when it has done the previous one. Have you seen a little boy playing with his father?"