Born Mardrid. An engineer and Roman Catholic bishop. He served as the prelate of Opus Dei between 1982 and 1994 as the successor to Escriva. Died Rome. He was beatified on 27 September 2014 in Madrid in a Mass that Cardinal Angelo Amato presided over on the behalf of Pope Francis.
The memorial says that he made a number of pilgrimages to the shrine at Our Lady of Willesden.
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Alvaro del Portillo
The Dissolution of the Monasteries, while not named on the memorial, is allud...
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
A Cistercian monastery. Also called St Mary's or West Ham Abbey, one of the largest Cistercian abbeys in England, it existed until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Although the ruins were pillag...
Religion. Founded by Bahá'u'lláh. It advocates universal peace and unity among all races, nations and religions. It initially developed in Iran and parts of the Middle East, where it has faced ongo...
A Christian evangelical organisation founded by Reverend Wilson Carlile. Unlike the plaque, their website omits the definite article from their name so so do we.
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