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Studies: St Josemaria’s education
May 23, 2008
The academic journal Studia et Documenta is published by the Instituto Storico San Josemaria Escriva. It contains articles about St Josemaria and the history of Opus Dei. The second volume, recently issued, covers St Josemaria’s education.
Professor José Luis Illanes says in his introduction: “To dedicate a journal issue to St Josemaria Escriva’s education and academic work, and to highlight more specifically his doctoral studies, is a task that is both simple and complex at the same time. Simple, because what filled St Josemaria’s life was not his academic career but his pastoral work and apostolate. Complex, because his education, even though it is divided into clearly distinct stages, is interwoven with important events in his life but also brings us face to face with one of his most characteristic features: the value he set on intellectual activity and everything that contributes to the progress of knowledge and culture, especially the advancement of university studies.” At one point, in fact, at the suggestion of some friends, he considered applying to become a university professor. But he soon realised that this was not the path God was calling him to follow; his vocation was to dedicate himself totally to doing Opus Dei and spreading the message of sanctifying ordinary life in the middle of the world.
Fr. Pedro Rodriguez’s article focuses on the doctorate that St Josemaria took at Madrid University. He arrived in Madrid in 1927, intending to write his doctoral thesis in law. His doctoral studies were combined with other very important aspects of his life, notably his attempts to secure his incardination in the diocese of Madrid and above all, after October 2 1928, his constant attention to the development of Opus Dei.
Other stages of his education are described and documented by Francesc Castells i Puig: school in Logroño, undergraduate courses at the Pontifical University of Saragossa; and, later, his doctoral thesis at the Lateran University in Rome.
The contents of this issue of Studia et Documenta includes, among other articles, studies of St Josemaria’s care of the sick in Madrid, the setting up of the Institute of Journalism of the University of Navarre, Spain; and the creation of a training school for women agricultural workers in Montefalco, Mexico.
There is also an analysis of the letters written by a student from Bilbao called Emiliano Amann, to his family while he was staying in the first students’ hall of residence set up by St Josemaria in Madrid. His letters give his personal impressions of the residence, and contain details of the life of Opus Dei just before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
The bibliographical section of this issue contains book reviews of ten books and brief notes on a further 17.
For details of the journal Studia et Documenta click here.
Other stages of his education are described and documented by Francesc Castells i Puig: school in Logroño, undergraduate courses at the Pontifical University of Saragossa; and, later, his doctoral thesis at the Lateran University in Rome.
The contents of this issue of Studia et Documenta includes, among other articles, studies of St Josemaria’s care of the sick in Madrid, the setting up of the Institute of Journalism of the University of Navarre, Spain; and the creation of a training school for women agricultural workers in Montefalco, Mexico.
There is also an analysis of the letters written by a student from Bilbao called Emiliano Amann, to his family while he was staying in the first students’ hall of residence set up by St Josemaria in Madrid. His letters give his personal impressions of the residence, and contain details of the life of Opus Dei just before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
For details of the journal Studia et Documenta click here.
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