alvaro del portillo, a faithful man (provisional english translation): latest version
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*This is a very provisional translation.
Javier Medina
A faithful man*
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Part 1: Childhood and youth
(1914 – 1939)
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Figure 1: Ramon del Portillo and Clementina Diez de Sollano. Photo credits: opusdei.org.mx
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1 Diez vs. Díez: the surname of Alvaro’s maternal grandfather has only one syllable and the accent falls on the ‘e’,
not on the ‘I’. Thus, it is pronounced as DYETH, not DI-yeth.
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Figure 2: The family estate San Antonio del Puente. Photo credits: opusdei.org.mx
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Figure 3: The Del Portillo children in La Granja de San Ildefonso where they would spend their summers. Photo credits: Saxum: Remembering Alvaro del Portillo
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Figure 4: Colegio del Pilar, 1908-1915. Photo credits: Pablo Echávarri
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Figure 5: Alvaro with his classmates in Pilar. Photo credits: Saxum: Remembering Alvaro del Portillo
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Figure 6: El Retiro Park. Photo credits: Saxum, Remembering Alvaro del Portillo
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Figure 7: Alvaro with Maria Teresa. Photo credits: josemariaescriva.info
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Figure 8: The Foundation for the Sick where St. Josemaria carried out a lot of apostolic activity. Photo credits: josemariaescriva.info
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Figure 9: The School of Engineering. Photo credits: Saxum: Remembering Alvaro del Portillo
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Figure 10: The Director of the Engineering School, Vicente Machibarrena. Photo credits: Saxum: Remembering Alvaro del Portillo
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Figure 11: Church of San Ramon in Vallecas. Photo credits: Carmen Pena from Panoramio
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Figure 12: Don Alvaro narrating the attack in a get-together. Photo credits: Saxum: Remembering Alvaro del Portillo
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Figure 13: Facade of what used to be the DYA Academy. Photo credits: josemariaescriva.ino
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Figure 14: Alvaro del Portillo was 21 when he sought admission to Opus Dei. Photo credits: Saxum: Remembering
Alvaro del Portillo
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2 Aspirations are short prayers directed to God or the saints.
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Figure 15: Jose Maria Hernandez Garnica later became a priest and began Opus Dei in many places in Europe: England, Ireland, France, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium
& Holland. Photo credits: opusdei.org.in
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3 Cucaña: a game using a greasy pole
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Figure 16: St. Josemaria depended a lot on Alvaro in running the DYA Residence.
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4 Nicola Avancini is a Jesuit spiritual writer of the 17
th century.
5 Tomas de Villacastin is another spiritual writer of the 17
th century.
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Figure 17: Madrid, 1936. Photo credits: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/scw/photessay.htm
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Figure 18: Spanish leftists open-fire on the statue of Christ. Photo credits: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ("Red Terror")
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Figure 19: Fr. Pedro Poveda, Photo credits: pedropoveda.org
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6 Paracuellos de Jarama is a small town northeast of Madrid and very close to the Barajas International Airport
(Wikipedia).
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Figure 20: San Anton prison where Alvaro was locked up during the civil war. Photo credits: Saxum - Remembering Alvaro del Portillo
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Figure21: A sketch of the area in the Honduras legation where St. Josemaria and his sons stayed. Photo credits: Saxum - Remembering Alvaro del Portillo
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7 The original Spanish is cartera which could mean “briefcase, bag, file, notecase, pocketbook, wallet”, etc.
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Figure 22: Part of a sketch drawn by Alvaro del Portillo, this time showing how they all fit in the small space allotted to them.
Photo credits: Saxum - Remembering Alvaro del Portillo
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Figure 23: Isidoro Zorzano was the member of Opus Dei left by St. Josemaria in Madrid to direct
the other members. Photo credits: alexiagb.pl
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Figure 24: Eduardo Alastrue. Photo credits: Saxum – Remembering Alvaro
del Portillo
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Figure 25: Vicente Rodriguez Casado.Photo credits: Saxum – Remembering
Alvaro del Portillo
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Figure 26: Through some providential circumstances, Alvaro and his friends were assigned to the same squad that moved to Guadalajara. Photo credits: Saxum – Remembering Alvaro del Portillo
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8 “The Visit” = is short for “visit to the Blessed Sacrament,” a norm of piety which Opus Dei members do at least
once daily
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Figure 27: The village of Cantalojas where Alvaro and his friends finally made the crossing to the National Zone. The church bells were ringing for
Holy Mass. Photo credits: Saxum – Remembering Alvaro del Portillo
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Figure 28: #1 Plaza Sta. Maria, where Alvaro's mother, Dona Clementina stayed in Burgos. Photo credits: La epoca de Burgos de San Josemaria
(Lugares)
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Figure 29: The Arlanzon River along whose shoreline Alvaro would take walks with St. Josemaria. Photo credits: La epoca de Burgos de San Josemaria (Lugares)
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Figure 30: Mother Rosario, one of the two surviving religious from the Las Huelgas de Burgos in the time of St. Josemaria. Photo
credits: La epoca de Burgos de San Josemaria (Lugares)
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Figure 31: The Carthusian monastery where Alvaro would go very early to Mass together with his companions with whom he did apostolate.
Photo credits: La epoca de Burgos de San Josemaria (Lugares)
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Figure 32: The Besson Bridge. It was in one of those walks along this bridge that St. Josemaria asked Alvaro his opinion about making Dona Dolores and Carmen
organize the administration of the center. Photo credits: La epoca de Burgos de San Josemaria (Lugares)
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Figure 33: Visiting the ruins of the DYA. Photo credits: josemariaescriva.info
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9 “Dolores” – here, Alvaro is playing with the word “dolores” which literally means “sorrows” but which, as a
proper noun, is a common name given to Spanish girls.
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Figure 34: The very words written by St. Josemaria referring to Alvaro as Saxum. Photo credits: Saxum: Remembering Alvaro del Portillo
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Figure 35: St. Josemaria and Alvaro in 1939. Photo credits: La epoca de Burgos de San Josemaria
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Part 2: Beside St. Josemaria
(1939 – 1975)
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Figure 36: Human losses and damage to infrastructure caused by the civil war are difficult to fully assess. It would take decades before
Spain would recover from these. Photo credits: Helian Bound.
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The Spanish is written because there doesn’t seem to be any English equivalent for such a department. Consider its literal English translation – Headquarters for the Computation of Bridges of Strict Height. The Spanish Wikipedia suggests that this classification of bridges in Spain was begun by the architect Fernando Casado. “While the word ‘strict’ in this classification more ostensible refers to the objective of minimizing the height of the bridge, what it probably intends to signify more are the principles advocated by Casado: strict use of materials (as is proper of any engineering activity), formal minimalism (recalling the tenets of architectural rationalism), and minimal impact on the landscape (preceding by decades the issues tackled by the Environmentalist Movement). (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Fern%C3%A1ndez_Casado#Puentes_de_altura_estricta)
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In the military, this means that one is “not enumerated among the regular components of (the)…organization.” (Merriam-Webster’s dictionary)
Figure 37: Alvaro was involved in the very serious work of rebuilding Spain's infrastructure after the civil war. Above is a snippet of a scholarly journal dedicated to such work around the time. Photo credits: ropdigital.ciccp.es
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Figure 38: The Father and Alvaro in a trip to Lleida (Catalonia) in 1941. Photo
credits: San Josepmaria a Lleida
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Figure 39: Teodoro Ruiz (left) became a priest and began Opus Dei in Colombia.
Photo credits: opusdei.org.co
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Figure 40: Florencio Sanchez-Bella became Councilor of Opus Dei in Spain and Vice-Grand Chancellor of the University of Navarre for many years since 1960. Photo credits: University of Navarre
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Figure 41: Jose Luiz Muzquiz with Alvaro in Rome. Fr. Muzquiz was sent by St. Josemaria to start Opus Dei in the U.S. Photo credits: josephmuzquiz.org.
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Figure 42: Francisco Ponz (extreme left) was later appointed Grand Rector of the University of Navarre in June 1966 by St. Josemaria
himself. Photo credits: Manuel Castells (University of Navarre)
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Figure 43: Pedro Casciaro (left) crossed the Pyrenees with St. Josemaria. He later brought
his Josemaria (right) to Opus Dei. Photo credits: josemariaexcriva.info.
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Figure 44: Jose Orlandis became the University of Navarre's first Dean of the Faculty of Canon Law and first director of the Institute of Church
History. Photo credits: diariodenavarra.es
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Figure 45: Bishop Leopoldo Eijo y Garay, who supported Opus Dei from its inception, had a
deference for Alvaro which he rarely gave to men of Alvaro's age. Photo credits: opusdei.org.br.
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Latin for “in your name, I will cast out the net.”
Figure 46: The Venerable Jose Maria Garcia Lahiguera was one of many important
ecclesiastical figures who were impressed with the human and supernatural qualities of
Alvaro del Portillo. Photo credits: Analisis digital
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Figure 47: St. Josemaria with the first three laymen in Opus Dei who became priests. This photo was taken a few days before their
ordination. Photo credits: opusdei.org
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Figure 48: El Escorial was, at once, a monastery and a Spanish royal palace. Originally a property of the Hieronymite monks, it is now a monastery of the
Order of Saint Augustine (Wikipedia). Photo credits: Gulliveria (Wikimedia commons.)
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Figure 49: During Mass at the women's center of Opus Dei, he was shown the seal of Opus Dei and of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross: a cross
embracing the world. He was also shown the juridical solution to put the two together. The
priests would be part of a society united to Opus Dei, but the diocesan priests would continue to be priests of their dioceses, and thus there will be no
conflict with the bishops (Wikipedia). Photo credits: Wikimedia commons
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Figure 50: Pius XII received Alvaro in audience, as well as other members of the Work in Rome. Pope Pius XII (born
Eugenio Pacelli) was declared Venerable by Pope Benedict XVI in December 2009. Photo credits: Historian 1990
(Wikimedia commons)
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Figure 51: Alvaro in his military uniform. Photo credits: Saxum: Remembering
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Figure 52: The informative process on the reputation for sanctity, the life, and the virtues of the Servant of God, Isidoro Zorzano, took place between 1948 and 1954
in Madrid. His remains are now in a vault in the parish church of St. Albert the Great, in the district of Vallecas (Romana). Photo credits: opusdei.org. ie
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In Spanish, persons of rank or who are much older are addressed as “Usted” (equivalent to the 3rd
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Figure 53: US Army troops wade ashore on Omaha Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944. Photo credits: Chief Photographer's Mate (CPHoM) Robert F.
Sargent, Wikimedia commons
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Figure 5419: The first three priests of Opus Dei with Bishop Leopoldo Eijo y Garay. Photo credits: opusdei.es
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Don Alvaro is the name that Bishop Alvaro was known in many, if not most, parts of the world despite the fact that the title “Don” for priests is used only for the most part in Spanish-speaking countries. (It is also used in Italy). The title of “Don” is the title of respect that’s given to men who deserve some degree of esteem by virtue of their age, position in society, or the office they hold. Since this name has become one by which he is affectionately remembered, the translator decided to retain it. On the other hand the title that’s given to the other priests and bishops mentioned in this translation is the one that’s used to address them in the English-speaking world: Fr. (Father) for priests; Msgr. (Monsignor) for priests granted this title; Bishop or HE (His Excellency) for bishops.
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Figure 55: The first three priests during their ordination. Photo credits: josemariaescriva.info
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Figure 56: The Founder of Opus Dei was the first penitent of Don Alvaro. Photo credits: opusdei.us
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Figure 57: Guadalupe Ortiz de Landazuri began apostolic work with women in Mexico. Her beatification process began in Nov. 2001. Photo credits: opusdei.us
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Figure 58: Encarnita Ortega, one of the first women of Opus Dei. Her process of
beatification began in March 2009. Photo credits: encarnitaortega.wordpress.com
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Figure 59: St. Josemaria preaching; diabetes had caused him to put on a lot of weight, because of which he had to follow a strict diet. Don
Alvaro himself followed this diet out of unity with and charity to the Founder. Photo credits: josemariaescriva.info
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Figure 60: “The J.J. Sister (1,554 grt). She was built in 1896 for the Navigazione Generale Italiana as the Galileo Galilei, but sold in 1910 to Compañía Valenciana de Vapores de Correos de África, one of the companies which merged to form Trasmediterránea on January 1, 1917. She was broken up in 1965” (www.timetableimages.com/maritime/images/ct27i.htm). Photo
credits: trasmeships.es
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Figure 61: Salvador Canals was the first member of Opus Dei who moved to Rome and later ordained a priest. Photo credits:
opusdei.ph
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Figure 62: The Church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli in Piazza Navona (also known as Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore) where Don Alvaro
celebrated his first mass in Rome. Photo credits: Wikipedia.
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Figure 63: Arcadio Maria Larraona Saralegui was a Claretian who worked as Undersecretary of the Congregation for Religious (1943-1950) and later
named Cardinal by St. Pope John XXIII (Gran Enciclopedia Navarra). Photo credits:
liturgia.mforos.com (escudos)
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Figure 64: Cardinal Luigi Lavitrano was former Archbishop of Palermo and later Cardinal priest of the title of San Silvestro in
Capite. Photo credits: Eman Bonnici
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Figure 65: Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, a close friend of Don Alvaro, would later become Pope Paul
VI. According to St. Josemaria, "the first friendly hand that held out itself to me in Rome was Monsignor
Montini’s”. Photo credits: orbiscatholicus.blogspot.com
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Figure 66: Cardinal Domenico Tardini (shown here with St. Pope John XXIII) was Secretary of State when he played football with Don Alvaro and some
kids in the the orphanage of Villa Nazareth which he founded. Photo credits: orbiscatholicussecundus.blogspot.com
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Figure 67: View from the apartment of Citta Leonina which was the first residence of St. Josemaria in Rome. Here he spent the
whole night in prayer for the Pope on his first day in Rome. Photo credits: py.josemariaescriva.info
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Figure 68: The Hotel Colombia Exelsior in Genoa where St. Josemaria spent his first night in Italy. The former hotel is now a university library. Photo credits: ebay.com
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Epact = technically, a period added to harmonize the lunar with the solar calendar (Merriam-Webster.com); in this case, this refers to a small booklet that contains the dates in a particular year (the solar calendar) on which the liturgical days and feasts (these follow the lunar calendar) fall. The original Spanish also uses the term “la agenda liturgica” (liturgical agenda notebook) in place of “epacta” (epact). In some countries, this small booklet of liturgical dates is called “ordo” (Latin for “order”) since it harmonizes or “orders” the lunar year of the liturgical cycle to the solar year of the civil calendar.
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Figure 69: St. Josemaria and Don Alvaro patiently worked with Fr. Larraona on the draft documents at times in the
Vatican, and at times, as in this photo, in the apartment in Citta Leonina. Photo credits: josemariaescriva.info
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Figure 70: The March 14, 1947 Italian edition of L'Osservatore Romano. Photo credits: Saxum: Remembering Alvaro del Portillo
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Figure 71: Fr. Agostino Gemelli, O.F.M. (center) is the founder of Università Cattolica
del Sacro Cuore. Photo credits: commons.wikimedi.org.
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Lire = plural for lira, the Italian currency at the time.
Figure 72: The beginnings of construction in Villa Tevere as seen from Viale Bruno Buozzi. Photo credits: Saxum: Remembering Alvaro del Portillo
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Figure 73: Don Alvaro at his work desk. Photo credits: Saxum: Remembering Alvaro del Portillo
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angina = a disease marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain: as a: a severe inflammatory or ulcerated condition of the mouth or throat; b: angina pectoris (Merriam-Webster)
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Figure 74: St. Josemaria inspecting the construction work in Villa Tevere. Photo credits: Dora del Hoyo: Recuerdos de Dora
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In the original Spanish, Don Alvaro plays around with the words “preocupacion” (concern, worry) and “ocupacion” (job, employment). The translator opted to use the English words more akin to the original Spanish – anyway, they capture the same sense as the other more commonly-used English words, albeit admittedly more awkward – so as not to lose the original effect of Don Alvaro’s play of words. 19
Money = this word is in quotation marks because Don Alvaro actually used this English word in his Spanish text (i.e., he “code-switched”, as linguists would say), obviously to humor Madurga.
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Figure 75: St. Josemaria with some students of the Roman College of the Holy Cross, the “future generation”. Photo credits: Saxum: Remembering Alvaro del Portillo
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Figure 76: The property of Salto di Fondi. Photo credits: Saxum: Remembering Alvaro del Portillo
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Figure 77: The Dec. 22, 1965 Italian edition of L'Osservatore Romano praising the efforts of Don Alvaro to promote genuine "land reform in the catholic spirit."
Photo credits: Saxum: Remembering Alvaro del Portillo
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This refers to Blessed Alvaro of Cordoba of whom an earlier reference had already been made.
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Figure 78: Francesco Angelecchio, the first Italian numerary, was later ordained in 1955. Photo credits:
opusdei.it
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The original Spanish “festosidad” is a made-up word and appeared with quotation marks. It clearly comes from the Latin “festus” which means festive, joyful, merry.
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Figure 79: View of Lake Albano and Castelgandolfo from Villa delle Rose. Photo credits: josemariaescriva.info
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Figure 80: St. Josemaria and Don Alvaro in the crossroads of Seefeld in their trip to Austria in
1955. St. Josemaria's prepared the apostolate in the Old Continent by sowing Hail Mary's in the
streets of Europe. Photo credits: josemariaescriva.info
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Figure 81: St. Josemaria and Don Alvaro in London, 1958. Photo credits: josemariaescriva.info
Figure 82: Netherhall House, residence for students in London inspired by St. Josemaria,
1952. Photo credits: josemariaescriva.info
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Figure 84: St. Josemaria and Don Alvaro praying before the relic of St. Thomas More. Photo credits: opusdei.org.uk
Figure 83: Roman Catholic Church of St. Thomas More was entrusted to the
Prelature of Opus Dei by Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor in 2005. The first Parish priest is Fr. Gerald Sheehan.
Photo credits: ohmynews.com
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Italian: In the middle of the way of our life 23
Latin: The staff and comfort of our life
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Figure 85: St. Josemaria renewing the consecration to the Sweetest Heart of Mary. Photo credits: surioctavo.blogspot.com
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Figure 86: Cardinal Ildefonso Schuster of Milan was a loyal supporter of Opus Dei. The holy prelate was later beatified by St. John Paul II on May 12, 1996.
Photo credits: it.wikipedia.org
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Latin: “thinking that they are rendering a service to God.” (John 16:2)
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Figure 87: Archbishop John Charles Mc Quaid (right), who was unmoved by the other members of Opus Dei sent to plead with him, was immediately won over by Don
Alvaro. Photo credits: thefarsight2.blogspot.com
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The original article was in English, hence the text in italics.
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Figure 88: The memorial stone put up at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fair Love in Molinoviejo to commemorate the silver anniversary of Opus Dei. Photo credits:
padrejosemedina.blogspot.com
Figure 89: A portion of the letter of Don Alvaro to his mother, Doña Clementina. Photo credits: Saxum: Remembering Alvaro del Portillo
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Figure 90: The miraculous cure of St. Josemaria’s diabetes occurred on the Feast of our Lady of Montserrat. Photo credits: en.wikipedia.org
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Figure 91: Don Alvaro with St. Josemaria in Lake Lucerne (Switzerland), 1956. Photo credits: Saxum, Remembering Alvaro del Portillo
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Vulgate: Latin version of the Bible written by St. Jerome
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Figure 92: The shrine of Our Lady in Einsiedeln, where the 2nd
General Congress of Opus Dei was held. Photo credits: josemariaescriva.info
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Figure 93: St. Josemaria’s hand putting wooden donkeys on the palms of Don Alvaro. Photo credits: Saxum: Remembering Alvaro del Portillo
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Figure 94: Carmen Escriva, called fondly by members of the Work as Tia Carmen, was an
indispensable help in the apostolates of Opus Dei in the early years. She had a great
fondness for Don Alvaro. Photo credtis: fluvium.org
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Figure 95: “Coat of arms of the Knights of Malta, from the façade of the church of San Giovannino dei Cavalieri, Florence.” It is said that “that the eight points of the cross represent the eight Beatitudes.”
Photo and caption credits: Wikipedia.org
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Figure 96: Cardinal Angelo Roncalli chose the name John XXIII upon his election to the See of Peter. Also known as
"Good Pope John" he was later canonized in 2014 by Pope Francis. Photo credits: commons.wikipedia.org
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Figure 20: Villa Tevere now. Photo credits: Dora del Hoyo: Recuerdos de Dora.
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The oldest among the nine congregations of the Roman Curia, this was the name of this congregation, since 1904. It used to be called “Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition” but is now known as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. (Wikipedia)
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Schema (plural: schemata or schemas): technical term used in the Council to refer to the documents prepared by the Commissions; in general, it means: “a representation of a plan or theory in the form of an outline or model” (Google).
Figure 21: The Opening Session of Vatican II. Photo credits: Saxum: Remembering Alvaro del Portillo.
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Figure 22: Don Alvaro’s exemplary work at the Council left a mark in the memory of not a few participants. Photo credits: Saxum: Remembering Alvaro del Portillo.
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“Canon of the Mass (Latin: Canon Missæ, Canon Actionis) is the name given in the Roman Missal, from the first typical edition of Pope Pius V in 1570 to that of Pope John XXIII in 1962, to the part of the Mass of the Roman Rite that begins after the Sanctus with the words Te igitur” (Wikipedia). The name of the present Pope is mentioned within the prayer.
Figure 23: The crowning of Pope Paul VI June 18, 1963. He was the last pope to use the tiara. Photo credits: splendorofthechurch.com.ph
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In this sentence, the original Spanish used two words – sacerdocio and presbiterado - which in English would be commonly translated by the same word: priesthood. (The more logical translation of the latter, “presbyterate” is hardly used in common language.) The first one actually refers to “priesthood in general” which would include every male person who has received the sacrament of Holy Orders (bishops, priests, and deacons). The second one refers only to what we commonly known as “the priest”, the one who belongs to the second rank of Holy Orders, technically known as “the presbyterate”. For more of this distinction, you can read an article by Fr. Gary Coulter in http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=6553
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Presently known simply as Vatican Press.
Figure 24: Cardinal Julian Herranz worked with Don Alvaro during the Council. Photo credits:
cardinalrating.com.
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Figure 25: German theologian Hans Kung. Photo credits: cicero.de
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Figure 26: Paul VI in Centro ELIS, a most joyous moment for St. Josemaria and Don Alvaro. Here he is shown with the Founder to whom he said, "Qui tutto è Opus Dei." Photo credits: Saxum: Remembering Alvaro del Portillo.
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Through the words “Here, everything is Opus Dei”, the Holy Father was perhaps playing around with the ideas of how everything in the Center was run by Opus Dei (Work of God), and how everything was, as well, the work of God.
Figure 28: “Pope Paul VI presiding over the introductory ingress of the Council, flanked by Camerlengo Benedetto
Aloisi Masella and two Papal gentlemen.” Photo and caption credits: Wikipedia
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Figure 27: Cardinal Ciriaci was Chairman of the Conciliar Commission on the Clergy and fully appreciated Don Alvaro’s work in the Council. Photo credits: Saxum:
Remembering Alvaro del Portillo.
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