Along the roads of Europe

Along the roads of Europe At the beginning of April 1970, St Josemaria, founder of Opus Dei, said he wanted to visit two shrines of our Lady like a twelfth-century pilgrim: with the same love, the same simplicity and the same joy. He was going there [...]
Tags: Piety, Our Lady, trips, In Love with the Church, UK

Document

Show that you’re a Mother!

St Josemaria’s prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe She will sort everything out On May 1, 1970, St Josemaria announced his desire to cross the Atlantic and prostrate himself at the feet of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Recalling the circumstances of that outburst of filial love for [...]
Tags: Our Lady, trips

Document

St Josemaria, Compostela Pilgrim

In April 2010 the Cultural Association Porta do Camiño organized a congress on four historical figures who went on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela at different moments in history. The conference was held in the Compostela Theological Institute. The congress drew its inspiration from the Porta [...]
Tags: History, trips

Document

St Josemaria Escriva and Ireland

In 1916 the young Josemaría Escrivá avidly followed the events of the Easter Rising in Ireland. “I was then about fifteen and I eagerly read everything in the newspapers about the events of the First World War. Most of all, though, I prayed a lot [...]
Tags: Freedom, trips, Ireland

Document

The Founder of Opus Dei in Ars

A special traffic office for Ars For many years in the nineteenth century, Ars, a little French village, was the center of the religious life of the whole of France. Between 1818 and 1859, such huge crowds of pilgrims went there that the train company that [...]
Tags: Priesthood, trips