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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?
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In an interview Roland Joffe, the film’s director, he said that in the film there’s a moment when Josemaria seems to lose faith, when God seems silent amidst all the hatred. At that point he meets a girl in Dr Suils’ asylum who says to him, ‘He doesn’t speak to you, does he?’
There is no historical evidence that St Josemaria met a young girl like “Aline” during his refuge in the asylum. A. Vazquez de Prada says in his biography that as well as the sick people, there was a group of other refugees, and St Josemaria tried to help them with his pastoral ministry. See “1936-1937: First stages of the civil war. Situation of Opus Dei”, under the heading “In Dr. Suils’s Asylum for the Mentally Ill”.
This scene in the film may show an aspect of St Josemaria’s faith amidst the great interior trials he experienced at that stage in his life. He discovered God’s providence speaking to him through events.
In the same interview Joffé said that in a way, St Josemaria, who used metaphors a lot, sees that woman (Aline) as a representation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Because if we stand at the foot of the Cross, what is interesting is that we focus not only, obviously, on the Crucified Christ, but on the Mother, and wonder what she feels, try to empathize with her feelings, when her Son, whom she brought up, whom she loves, is nailed to a cross in front of her.
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There is no historical evidence that St Josemaria met a young girl like “Aline” during his refuge in the asylum. A. Vazquez de Prada says in his biography that as well as the sick people, there was a group of other refugees, and St Josemaria tried to help them with his pastoral ministry. See “1936-1937: First stages of the civil war. Situation of Opus Dei”, under the heading “In Dr. Suils’s Asylum for the Mentally Ill”.
This scene in the film may show an aspect of St Josemaria’s faith amidst the great interior trials he experienced at that stage in his life. He discovered God’s providence speaking to him through events.
In the same interview Joffé said that in a way, St Josemaria, who used metaphors a lot, sees that woman (Aline) as a representation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Because if we stand at the foot of the Cross, what is interesting is that we focus not only, obviously, on the Crucified Christ, but on the Mother, and wonder what she feels, try to empathize with her feelings, when her Son, whom she brought up, whom she loves, is nailed to a cross in front of her.
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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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