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Josemaría Escrivá
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Spanish priest, writer and Catholic saint
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Josemaría Escrivá was a male author born in Buenos Aires on January 9, 1902, and baptized on January 13, 1902. He died on June 26, 1975. His written works include *Furrow*, *The Way*, *The Forge*, and *Passionately Loving the World*. Various sources list his work count as either four or five.
Escrivá is associated with several recorded quotes, including statements on prayer, virtue, and happiness. One quote notes that true virtue is pleasantly cheerful, while another suggests that happiness in Heaven is for those who know how to be happy on earth. He has been referenced by 1,962 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Furrow - Pocket Edition
- The Way By Josemaria Escriva
- Passionately Loving the World
- The Forge
- Way, Furrow, Forge (Large Print)
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 11
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- In vivo toxicity studies of fusarium mycotoxins in the last decade: A review
· 2015 · cited 331x
- Spread of a SARS-CoV-2 variant through Europe in the summer of 2020
· 2021 · cited 320x
- Lipid peroxidation as measured by chromatographic determination of malondialdehyde. Human plasma reference values in health and disease
· 2021 · cited 302x
- Efficacy of Margetuximab vs Trastuzumab in Patients With Pretreated ERBB2-Positive Advanced Breast Cancer
· 2021 · cited 296x
- Self-adaptive systems: A survey of current approaches, research challenges and applications
· 2013 · cited 195x
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Quotes
- “You are too calculating. Don't tell me you are young. Youth gives all it can: it gives itself without reserve.”
- “First, prayer; then, atonement; in the third place, very much 'in the third place', action.”
- “True virtue is not sad or disagreeable, but pleasantly cheerful.”
- “All the things of this world are no more than earth. Place them in a heap under your feet and you will be so much the nearer to heaven.”
- “Gold, silver, jewels: dust, heaps of manure. Gratification, sensual pleasures, satisfaction of the appetites: like a beast, like a mule, like a cock, like a pig, like a bull. Honours, distinctions, titles: things of air, puffs of pride, lies, nothingness.”
- “I am every day more convinced that happiness in Heaven is for those who know how to be happy on earth.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás (9 January 1902 – 26 June 1975) was a Spanish Catholic priest who founded Opus Dei, an organization of laypeople and priests dedicated to the principle of everyday holiness. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2002.
Escrivá studied for the priesthood in Logroño and Zaragoza and in 1925 was ordained in the latter. He then moved to Madrid, where he pursued doctoral studies in civil law at the Central University. After the start of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, Escrivá fled from Madrid, via Andorra and France, to the city of Burgos, which at the time served as the headquarters of the rebel Nationalist forces under General Francisco Franco. After the military triumph of the Nationalists, Escrivá returned to Madrid and completed his doctorate in 1939. His principal work was the initiation, government and expansion of Opus Dei. His best-known publication is The Way, which has been translated into 43 languages and has sold several million copies. Escrivá settled in Rome in 1946. In 1955, he received a doctorate in theology from the Lateran University.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Josemaría Escrivá” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.