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Was the fight in the seminary a historical fact?
Marina Navarrete - Argentina
Joffé took a historical event as the base for the contrasting figures of Josemaria and Manolo.
The movie shows that both started from the same point, and then used their freedom to build their lives in different ways, working out their personal fight against their inner “dragons”.
Joffé also used the scene in the movie to show something that St Josemaria often said: nobody is born a saint. It shows St Josemaria’s human side and sums up the many difficulties he faced at that stage in his preparation for the priesthood.
The reaction of Fr Solano in the movie is a summary of the attitude of the real rector of the seminary in Saragossa, who after an initial period of mistrust owing to misinformation, valued young Josemaria’s deep spiritual life.
There was a real fight, but with a difference. When Josemaria was in the seminary one of his fellow-seminarians attacked him in La Seo Cathedral, and Josemaria hit him back. They were both reprimanded, though the seminary authorities knew that Josemaria had not started the quarrel. Years later, as recorded in the biography by A. Vazquez de Prada, that same seminarist, now a priest, wrote him a letter apologizing.
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The movie shows that both started from the same point, and then used their freedom to build their lives in different ways, working out their personal fight against their inner “dragons”.
Joffé also used the scene in the movie to show something that St Josemaria often said: nobody is born a saint. It shows St Josemaria’s human side and sums up the many difficulties he faced at that stage in his preparation for the priesthood.
The reaction of Fr Solano in the movie is a summary of the attitude of the real rector of the seminary in Saragossa, who after an initial period of mistrust owing to misinformation, valued young Josemaria’s deep spiritual life.
There was a real fight, but with a difference. When Josemaria was in the seminary one of his fellow-seminarians attacked him in La Seo Cathedral, and Josemaria hit him back. They were both reprimanded, though the seminary authorities knew that Josemaria had not started the quarrel. Years later, as recorded in the biography by A. Vazquez de Prada, that same seminarist, now a priest, wrote him a letter apologizing.
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José Miguel Cejas
List of Contents
- What happened Josemaria meets Manolo after the death of Mr. Torres?
- Did Josemaria have the vision of Opus Dei just like it comes in the movie?
- Was the fight in the seminary a historical fact?
- I went to see There Be Dragons with some friends the other day. We couldn’t work out who Aline (the red-haired girl) was meant to be– an angel? The Virgin Mary? Or who?
- Did St Josemaria really hear confessions during the Spanish Civil War, risking arrest? Even in a zoo?
- It is depicted that Josemaria sat at the death bed and prayed for a friend of the family who was Jewish! Did that really happen in his life?
- Were there any Opus Dei members on the Republican side?
- How many people were there in Opus Dei at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War? Were any of them killed?
- Are any of the people who trekked across the Pyrenees with St. Josemaria, such as Pedro Casciaro, still alive? Did they become Opus Dei priests?
- Was Manolo, one of the main characters in There Be Dragons, a real person? Did St Josemaria have a friend like Manolo?
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