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    Who is Blessed Álvaro del Portillo?

    On Saturday morning, September 27, , Alvaro del Portillo, engineer, bishop and first successor of St. Josemaría at the head of Opus Dei, was beatified in Madrid before a crowd of faithful from eighty countries. He was also one of the protagonists of the Second Vatican Council.

    Beatification of Álvaro del Portillo: September 27th

    To his beatification, more than , people from all over the world attended the event.. The ceremony was presided over by Cardinal Angelo Amato. He was accompanied by Cardinal Antonio María Rouco, Archbishop Emeritus of Madrid and the former prelate of Opus Dei, Don Javier Echevarría. Seventeen cardinals and bishops from around the world concelebrated at the same ceremony.

    Cardinal Angelo Amato emphasized in his homily, Alvaro del Portillo's fidelity to the Gospel, to the Church and to the Pope. He explained: "he fled from all personalism, because he transmitted the truth of the Gospel, not his own opinions".

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    Beatification of Opus Dei leader Alvaro sektion Portillo

    By Sarah Mac Donald - 27 September,

    Dublin, 3 August , an 8-year-old John Mullen gives a rose to Venerable Alvaro del Portillo who asks him to place it beside the tabernacle.

    The beatification of Bishop Alvaro Del Portillo today brings the prelate who succeeded the founder of the international lay movement Opus Dei, a step closer to canonisation though he only died in

    “It’s something unusual in the history of the Church to have a founder who is canonised and his successor is also. It’s a good sign,” according to Fr C. John McCloskey, an Opus Dei priest.

    He told the National Catholic Register newspaper that this was “especially given the emphasis Opus Dei puts on the holiness of the laity. It’s very timely for the world and also for our own country.”

    Thousands of people have attested to the Spanish bishop’s kindness, warmth of smile, humility, supernatural courage, and the peace of

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    Trisha Villarante

    On September 27, , as early as am, hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from over 80 countries made their way to Madrid’s Parque de Valdebebas for the Beatification of Bishop Alvaro del Portillo, the first successor of the founder of Opus Dei, St. Josemaria Escriva. Our group of 50 Canadians travelled by Metro to the site. At each stop we were accompanied bygd other passengers clearly heading to the Beatification as well. Dressed in Sundays’ best, carrying folding chairs and proudly baring their flags of origin, we could tell they were going where we were going. The obviousness caused an excited stir of conversations and selfies throughout the train. Anyone who was not attending the Beatification approached the train with caution, as if they were witnessing a giant flash mob. The atmosphere on the train was a jubilant one. The stop for Valdebebas was decorated with posters of Alvaro del Portillo with arrows directing people to the bus line-up. Th