Beatification of Alvaro del Portillo in Madrid

Don Alvaro 1914-1994 The Beatification of Alvaro del Portillo Madrid, September 27, 2014

Don Alvaro 1914-1994

Alvaro del Portillo priest and father


Content

his life Madrid 1914 - Rome 1994

the person engineer, priest, prelate of Opus Dei

his beatification Madrid, September 27

organized travel flights Friday 26 to Monday 29 September


Alvaro del Portillo was born in

1914 in Madrid (Spain). His

mother was Mexican, his father

Spanish. He studied civil

engineering, philosophy and

theology.



injured by a monkey wrench

during catechism for children

in a suburb of Madrid (1934)


He was one of the first members of Opus Dei and was a

direct collaborator of St .Josemaria. It was him who

stimulated Don Alvaro to become priest in 1944.


In the Netherlands (Brabant) 1958: St. Josemaria together with Don Alvaro


a visit to the Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk, Amsterdam, 1958


During Don Alvaro's years in

Rome (1946-1994), the

Holy See entrusted a

number of tasks to him, and

he carried these out with

great dedication. He

participated at the Vatican

Council, among others as

secretary of the

Commission of clerus and

laymen (Presbyterorum Ordinis). Vatican 5-3-1960:

St John XXIII, St. Josemaria, Don Alvaro


Vatican 5-3-1976: Paul VI and Don Alvaro

On September 15, 1975,

Don Alvaro was elected as

St. Josemaría’s first

successor. When Opus Dei

was established as a

personal prelature on

November 28, 1982, Pope

John Paul II appointed him

Prelate of Opus Dei.


Torreciudad, July 1977


Amsterdam, 1970-1980


In Kenia 7-4-1989


ordained bishop by St. John Paul II, 6-1-1991


with St. John Paul II, 18-5-1992


The last h. Mass 22-3-1994, in the Church of the Cenacle, Jerusalem

Early in the morning of

March 23, 1994, God called

his good and faithful

servant to Himself.

He just came back of a

pilgrimage to the Holy

Land. The day before he

celebrated his last holy

Mass in the Church of the

Cenacle.


St John Paul II in the Prelatic Church, Rome, 23-3-1994

After his dead, the same day, St John Paul II visited him at the

Prelatic Church.


Miracle through Bishop Alvaro's intercession: recovery of

Jose Ignacio. The Holy See has attributed to the intercession of

Bishop Alvaro the recovery of the newborn Jose Ignacio Ureta

Wilson after a cardiac arrest lasting longer than half an hour.

José Ignacio with his parents 2013


March 12, 2014 Through his Secretary of State, Pope Francis urges those taking part in the conference on Alvaro del Portillo to imitate his "humble, cheerful, hidden and silent life, a life determined to give testimony to the perennial newness of the Gospel." His Holiness exhorts you to imitate his humble, cheerful, hidden and silent life, but a life that was also determined to give testimony to the perennial newness of the Gospel, by announcing the universal call to holiness and the furthering through one’s daily work of the salvation of all mankind. Cardinal Pietro Parolin .


The Almudena Cathedral

Beatification of

Don Alvaro del Portillo

in Madrid

3-days flight, September, 26 to 28

4-days flight, September, 26 to 29


Program Friday, September 26: departure of

flights from Schiphol airport. Saturday, September 27: Beatification

Mass, presided over by Cardinal Angelo Amato at the Valdebebas Park.

Sunday, September 28, Thanksgiving

Mass presided over by Bishop Javier Echevarría, Prelate of Opus Dei, at the Valdebebas Park;

departure of first flight. Monday, September 29, Departure of

the other 6 flights.


travel arrangements include

flight with KLM incl. all charges transport within Madrid, airport to

hotel, hotel to Valdebebas Park, etc.

Stay at a three star hotel with breakfast in a double room

public transport

not included

consumptions, lunch and diners accommodation of young people travel and cancellation insurance free gift for local organizer


Hotel rooms In a 3 star hotel; for stay in a single room, there is an additional fee. Youth Flight MA1403 is for youth (boys) and flight MA1406 for youth (girls). Both groups will have accommodation in schools. More information about the beatification: www.alvaro14.org about Opus Dei: www.opusdei.org Contact regarding travel arrangements: VNB other aspects: Stichting De Oude Gracht, [email protected]

http://www.alvaro14.org/

http://www.opusdei.org/

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Travel code

heenreis terugreis verblijf tariff charge single room

MA1401 26-9-14 13:40 16:15 29-9-14 12:50 15:25 hotel Aravaca € 489,- € 150,-

MA1402 26-9-14 20:50 23:25 29-9-14 17:10 19:50 hotel Aravaca € 489,- € 150,-

MA1403 26-9-14 20:50 23:25 29-9-14 17:10 19:50 school € 295,-

MA1404 26-9-14 9:30 12:05 29-9-14 20:15 22:45 hotel Eurostars € 489,- € 150,-


MA1406 26-9-14 9:30 12:05 28-9-14 17:10 19:50 school € 295,-



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Beatification of Alvaro del Portillo in Madrid