Josemaría Escrivá

Saint Josemaría Escrivá (January 9, 1902 ? June 26, 1975), (also known as Jose María or Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albas) was a Spanish Catholic priest and founder of the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, popularly, Opus Dei. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II, who declared Saint Josemaria as "counted among the great witnesses of Christianity." http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/archives/1999Nov/222nov23,vol.10,no.222txt/nov23top.htm John Paul II's decree Christifideles omnes also states: "y inviting Christians to seek union with God through their daily work - which confers dignity on human beings and is their lot as long as they exist on earth - his message is destined to endure as an inexhaustible source of spiritual light regardless of changing epochs and situations." http://gabriel.mps.ohio-state.edu/od/opus.dec

Intercession

His cause for Canonization was introduced in Rome on February 19 1981 on the strength of the apparently miraculous cure in 1976 of a rare disease, lipomatosis, suffered by Sister Concepción Boullón Rubio, whose family had prayed to Escrivá to help her. On April 9, 1990, Pope John Paul II declared that Escrivá possessed Christian virtues to a "heroic degree", and on July 6, 1991 the Board of Physicians for the Congregation of the Causes of Saints unanimously accepted the cure of Sister Rubio. A second reported miracle apparently brought about by Escrivá's intervention was ruled valid by the Congregation and approved by Pope John Paul II in December 2001.

Related Topics:
Canonization - February 19 - 1981 - Miraculous - 1976 - Disease - Lipomatosis - April 9 - 1990 - John Paul II - July 6 - 1991 - December - 2001

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