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...
Vicar. Born circa 1568. He was chaplain to the Jamestown Settlement.
Born near Hull. Joint pastor of the Islington Union Chapel from 1843/4 with Thomas Lewis, taking sole charge on Lewis's death in 1852, until his own death. Friends with Gladstone and Asquith (wh...
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
Old parish church , built 1400, rebuilt 1741, demolished 1949.
Hon. Sec, to the Strangers Home for Asiatics, Africans & South Sea Islanders, in 1921. Rector of St John at Hackney 1930. Vicar of St Johns Church, Lemsford, Welwyn Garden City, 1934-44.
The Wellcome Collection holds the Hospital's 1929 Annual Report which lists James Anderson and Mrs Anderson as 2 of the 7 Vice-Presidents. They are also listed as Life Governors, and subscribers al...
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