Josemaría Escrivá

...approximately 300,000 people gathered in St. Peter's Square on the day Pope John Paul II canonized Josemaria Escriva. According to one author, "Escriva is... venerated by millions". There are other members whose process of beatification...

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...which stars former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko, Dougray Scott and Wes Bentley, focuses in part on the life of Opus Dei founder Jose Maria Escriva, who was made a saint in 2002. Joffe has revealed to Reuters he worked with a member of Opus Dei...

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...is making "There Be Dragons," a film set during the Spanish Civil War that focuses in part on the life of Opus Dei founder Jose Maria Escriva. Principal photography is complete, and Joffe is now in the editing room aiming to have the...

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...of Solace, Max Payne) MARKETING DIRECTOR Paul Lauer (Passion of the Christ, Narnia) While researching the life of St. Josemaria Escriva, the founder of the controversial Opus Dei, a young journalist, estranged from his military father,...

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...ORANGE -- The thought never occurred to John Coverdale, back in the 1960s, that the priest he revered and worked for in Rome, Josemaria Escriva, would someday be made a saint. Coverdale, now a tax professor at Seton Hall University Law...

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...agent (5) 13 and 22 2004 film starring Imelda Staunton in the title role (4,5) 14 Catholic institution founded by Josemaria Escriva in 1928 (4,3) 15 Capital of West Germany 1949-90 (4) 16 Town in Surrey that contains the field...

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...including Derek Jacobi, Charles Dance, model Lily Cole and Ukrainian Bond girl Olga Kurylenko. It follows the life of Josemaria Escriva, Opus Dei's founder, who was canonised by Pope John Paul in 2002, against the turbulent backdrop of...

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...of St. Josemaria's canonization Canonization of Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer discusses John Paul II's decision to canonize Josemaria Escriva, founder of the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, more commonly known as Opus Dei. History...

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...than priests, who have dominated the membership of Opus Dei, ever since it was founded in 1928 by the Spanish priest Josemaria Escriva, who was later made a saint. People like Marta Brancatisano, who is not a mysterious, shadowy religious...

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...explicit or an implicit support of any of these dictatorships. Thus, some writers state that it is arguable that neither Josemaria Escriva nor the Opus Dei organisation itself have ever explicitly supported totalitarianism of any kind and...

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