Born Spain. He became a Roman Catholic priest. He founded Opus Dei, an organization of laypeople and priests dedicated to the teaching that everyone is called to holiness by God and that ordinary life can result in sanctity. Died Rome. He was canonized in 2002 by Pope John Paul II.
The memorial says that he made a number of pilgrimages to the shrine at Our Lady of Willesden.
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Josemaria Escriva
The Dissolution of the Monasteries, while not named on the memorial, is allud...
The church gets its name from the pattens (clog-like shoes) made and sold in the lane beside the church. An early building was pulled down and reconstructed in 1538. After the Great Fire it was aga...
The seal of the Knights incorporated the image of a horse with two riders, the Knights originally being too poor to have a horse each.   By papal decree the Knights Templar were dissolved in 1312 a...
Popularly known as the Brompton Oratory. Founded the year after Cardinal Newman established the Birmingham Oratory.
There was a gun-manufacturing foundry at Windmill Hill, now Tabernacle Street EC2, until an explosion on 10 May 1716. Captured French guns were being melted and the liquid metal was poured into mou...
Theologian. Born Florence, Italy. son of an Austrian nobleman/diplomat. Died London.
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