Person    | Male  Born 11/3/1914  Died 23/3/1994

Alvaro del Portillo

Categories: Religion

Countries: Spain

Born Mardrid. An engineer and Roman Catholic bishop. He served as the prelate of Opus Dei between 1982 and 1994 as the successor to Escriva. Died Rome. He was beatified on 27 September 2014 in Madrid in a Mass that Cardinal Angelo Amato presided over on the behalf of Pope Francis.

The memorial says that he made a number of pilgrimages to the shrine at Our Lady of Willesden.

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