Sharing a birthday with me (December 12, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe) is a soon to become Spanish saint. (see BLOG 8/19/2017)
On May 18 in Madrid
Opus Dei was made a personal prelature by St. John Paul II in 1982. It was founded by St. Josemaría in 1928 and teaches that everyone is called to personal holiness in and through their ordinary lives.
Bl. Guadalupe met St. Josemaria in 1944. She later said, “I had the very clear idea that God was speaking to me through that priest.” From that point she felt a calling to serve Christ through her life and work, and several months later, at the age of 27, she became a numerary
In 1950, St. Josemaria asked her to bring Opus Dei to Mexico
Among the initiatives they spearheaded was a mobile medical clinic which went home-to-home in the poorest neighborhoods providing free care and medicine. She also promoted education among poor, indigenous Mexicans.
Six years later she was asked to go to Rome , but not long after arriving she began to suffer conditions of a heart condition which meant she had to return to Spain
She was known to make frequent visits to the Blessed Sacrament to speak with Christ and was also devoted to friends and students and those with whom she lived.
In 1975, doctors decided to operate on her heart. The operation, at the university clinic in Navarra, was successful, but several days afterward she died..
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Her brother and sister-in-law are also up for canonization-
(Venerable Eduardo Landazuri and Venerable Laura Otaeguri- BLOGS 8/2017)
Her brother and sister-in-law are also up for canonization-
(Venerable Eduardo Landazuri and Venerable Laura Otaeguri- BLOGS 8/2017)