Josemaria Escriva

St Josemaria Escriva was a priest who was born in Barbastro
(Spain) in 1902. In 1928 he founded Opus Dei, an institution
within the Catholic Church which aims to spread the
universal call to holiness through work and in everyday
life. St Josemaria died in Rome in 1975. John Paul II
proclaimed him a saint in a canonization ceremony in St
Peter’s Square, Rome, on October 6 2002, before a crowd of
hundreds of thousands of people from more than 80 countries