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...
Elizabeth I's last Archbishop of Canterbury. The palace used as a summer retreat by the Archbishops of Canterbury was in Croydon and here in 1596 Whitgift founded an eponymous school. Memorable da...
Designed by architect E. B. Ferrey in 1881. We think this is Edmund Benjamin Ferrey (1845–1900), son of Benjamin Ferrey who designed St Stephen's extension in Rochester Street, SW1. The church hall...
A Church of England missionary organisation (no surprise), created because the church was felt to be in a poor state in the American colonies. In 1965 it joined with the 'Universities' Mission to C...
Writer on literature and theology, novelist and poet. Born Charles Walter Stansby Williams, 3 Spencer Road. He worked for the Oxford University Press (OUP) in various capacities for most of his lif...
Built by John Nash in the Gothic style with a tall tower. Destroyed by WW2 bombs and the site made into a playground.
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