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BLESSED JOSEMAR�A ESCRIV� TO BE CANONIZED OCTOBER 6, 2002
The Vatican has announced that Pope John Paul II will canonize
Josemar�a
Escriv�, Opus Dei's founder, Padre P�o, Juan Diego, and 6 others
this
year.
Pope John Paul II will canonize Blessed Josemar�a Escriv�, Opus
Dei's
founder, the Vatican announced on February 26, 2002. The
canonization will
take place in Saint Peter's Square on October 6, 2002.
The Holy See also announced that Padre P�o would be canonized June
16, Juan
Diego would be canonized July 30, Pedro de San Jos� Betancurt
would be
canonized July 31, and a canonization ceremony would take place
May 19,
2002, for Alonso de Orozco, Ignazio da Santhi�, Umile da
Bisignano, Paulina
do Cora�ao Agonizante de Jesus, and Benedetta Cambiagio
Frassinello.
Blessed Josemar�a founded Opus Dei in Spain in 1928 to help people
seek
holiness in everyday life, especially through work. By the time
of his
death, on June 26, 1975, Opus Dei had spread to 32 countries and
had 60,000
members.
"By his example and preaching, Blessed Josemar�a has taught many
thousands
of people that their daily activities can bring them closer to
God," said
Rev. Arne Panula, the vicar of Opus Dei in the United States. "The
Church,
in declaring Blessed Josemar�a a saint, reminds us that all men
and women
are called to sanctity."
Blessed Josemar�a's emphasis on lay holiness, while first
considered
radical by some within the Catholic Church, was later re-affirmed
by the
Church's Second Vatican Council. Pope John Paul and other Church
leaders
have described Blessed Josemar�a as a precursor of the Council.
"Your institution has as its aim the sanctification of one's life,
while
remaining within the world at one's place of work and profession,"
Pope
John Paul once told members of Opus Dei. "This is a truly great
ideal,
which right from the beginning has anticipated the theology of the
lay
state, a mark of the Church and the Council."
Blessed Josemar�a was born in Barbastro, Spain, on Jan. 9, 1902.
He founded
Opus Dei on Oct. 2, 1928. After his death in 1975, a third of the
world's
bishops petitioned the Vatican to open his cause of beatification
and
canonization.
Vatican procedures for canonization - a formal declaration that
someone is
a saint - require an exhaustive investigation of a potential
saint's life,
plus two authenticated miracles.
Pope John Paul II beatified Monsignor Escriv� in Saint Peter's
Square on
May 17, 1992, attracting an audience of about 300,000 people.
On Dec. 20, 2001, the Vatican authenticated a second miracle
attributed to
Blessed Josemar�a, thus clearing the way for the canonization. A
Spanish
doctor suffering from chronic radiodermatitis, damage to his hands
caused
by repeated exposure to x-rays, was miraculously healed after
praying for
Blessed Josemar�a's intercession.
The canonization later this year coincides with a worldwide,
year-long
series of events commemorating the hundredth anniversary of
Blessed
Josemar�a's birth. At one of these events last month Pope John
Paul said,
"Blessed Josemar�a placed at the center of his own preaching the
truth that
all the baptized are called to the fullness of charity, and that
the most
immediate way to reach this common goal is through the ordinary
events of
each day."
Since Blessed Josemar�a's death in 1975, the number of people in
Opus Dei
has grown to 84,000 people worldwide, with 3,000 in the United
States.
In 1982 Opus Dei became the Catholic Church's first personal
prelature.
Personal prelatures, like dioceses, are hierarchical jurisdictions
of the
Church. Personal prelatures exist to carry out specific pastoral
missions
within the Church worldwide.
U.S. groups needing tickets for the canonization can obtain
information at
www.canonization.info.
http://www.opusdei.org/art.php?w=32&p=3344
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