Escrivá de Balaguer, Josemaría, Saint, 1902-1975

Enlarge text Shrink text
  • Personality
| System number 987007260969605171

Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
אסקריבה, חוזהמריה, 1902-1975
Name (Latin)
Escrivá de Balaguer, Josemaría, Saint, 1902-1975
Other forms of name
Josemaría, Saint, 1902-1975
Albás, José María Escrivá de Balaguer, Saint, 1902-1975
Balaguer Albás, Josemaria Escrivá de, Saint, 1902-1975
Balaguer Albás, José María Escrivá de, Saint, 1902-1975
Balaguer y Albás, José María Escrivá de, Saint, 1902-1975
Balaguer, Josemaría Escrivá de, Saint, 1902-1975
De Balaguer, Josemaría Escrivá, Saint, 1902-1975
Escrivá de Balaguer Albás, Josemaría, Saint, 1902-1975
Escrivá de Balaguer Albás, José María, Saint, 1902-1975
Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás, José María, Saint, 1902-1975
Escriva de Balaguer, Jose Maria, Saint, 1902-1975
Balaguer, Jose Maria Escriva de, Saint, 1902-1975
Escriva, Jose Maria, Saint, 1902-1975
Escriva, Josemaria, Saint, 1902-1975
Escriva de Balaguer Albas, Saint, 1902-1975
Albas, Jose Maria, Saint, 1902-1975
De Balaguer, Jose Maria Escriva, Saint, 1902-1975
Date of birth
1902-01-09
Date of death
1975-06-26
Associated country
Italy
Spain
Field of activity
Priesthood
Occupation
Priests
Associated Language
spa
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 59077252
Wikidata: Q186807
Library of congress: n 83019238
Sources of Information
  • ECIP request, 2011-04-22:(St. Josemaria preferred to write his first two names as one. In some of his early writings the name was separated into two but for the last 50 or so years, it has always been written combined as one name and later editions of all his works have always shown his name in this way)
  • Favors of Saint Josemaría Escrivá, 2004:E-CIP data sheet (canonized by Pope John Paul II on Oct. 6, 2002)
  • His Furrow, 1987:t.p. (Josemaría Escrivá)
  • His La abadesa de las Huelgas, 1944.
  • Mons. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y el Opus Dei, 1982:t.p. (Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer)
  • Opus Dei website, viewed 24 August 2023(Fr. Josemaría; while on a spiritual retreat in Madrid, Saint Josemaría Escrivá, under divine inspiration, founded Opus Dei on 2 October 1928)
  • Wikipedia, viewed 24 August 2023(Josemaría Escrivá; Saint José María Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás (9 January 1902 - 26 June 1975); Spanish 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 to discover sanctity in their ordinary lives; canonized in 2002 by Pope John Paul II; José María Mariano Escriva y Albás was born in the small town of Barbastro, in Huesca, Spain; ordained as deacon on 20 December 1924, and ordained a priest, also in Zaragoza, on 28 March 1925; died in Rome, Italy)
  • LCN