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While he was in Burgos, Father Josemaría had no contact of any kind with Franco. He knew just three people in politics: Ramon Serrano Suner, who was Franco’s right-hand man, Enrique Gimenez Arnau, and Jose Lorente Sanz. He had met Serrano Suner years before when they were both teaching at the same institute in Zaragoza, but they had never been friends, and Father Josemaria had no contact with him in Burgos. Gimenez Arnau and Lorente Sanz had been at university with Father Josemaria in Zaragoza, and in Burgos he met Lorente Sanz again in connection with his efforts to get his book The Way published, but their dealings were restricted to that topic and no more.

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Documents of the Holy See Homilies Articles and studies The early years of Opus Dei St. Josemaria in the Spanish Civil War Historical Notes Accounts Bibliography Useful links

List of Contents

• Historical Notes Introduction
• Was the Escriva family well off or short of money?
• What sort of childhood did Josemaria Escriva have?
• Why did Josemaria’s father’s business fail?
• If Opus Dei had no members till the 1930s, why did Josemaria Escriva say it was founded in 1928?
• What difficulties did Opus Dei meet with at the start?
• What kind of people did Father Josemaria Escriva work with in Opus Dei’s early years?
• What was Father Josemaria Escriva’s attitude towards the Second Spanish Republic?
• What was Father Josemaria Escriva’s reaction to the attempted military coup of July 18, 1936?
• Where did the first Opus Dei members stand politically?
• Is it true that another priest was killed by mistake for Father Josemaria Escriva?
• Why did Father Josemaria go into hiding?
• How did Father Josemaria exercise his priesthood during the Spanish Civil War?
• How and why did Father Josemaria decide to escape across the Pyrenees Mountains?
• Why Burgos?
• Which side were Opus Dei members on in the Spanish Civil War?
• What did Father Josemaria think of Franco and his activities during the Spanish Civil War?
• What contact did Father Josemaria have with the Franco regime?
• What did Father Josemaria say about the reprisals carried out by Franco’s followers during the Spanish Civil War?
• What did Father Josemaria think of Hitler and the Nazis?

Direct links + Writings of the Founder of Opus Dei
+ Opus Dei web site
+ Vatican web site
+ Bulletin of the Prelature of Opus Dei
+ St. Josemaría Escrivá Historical Institute
+ St. Josemaria Institute
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