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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Josemaría Escrivá

1902 - 1975

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Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás (9 January 1902 – 26 June 1975) was a 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. He was canonized in 2002 by Pope John Paul II, who declared Josemaría should be "counted among the great witnesses of Christianity." Escrivá gained a doctorate in civil law at the Complutense University of Madrid and a doctorate in theology at the Lateran University in Rome. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josemaría Escrivá has received more than 769,631 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Josemaría Escrivá is the 521st most popular religious figure (down from 508th in 2019), the 138th most popular biography from Spain (up from 140th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Spanish Religious Figure.

Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, more commonly known as "josemaría," was a Spanish priest and writer. He is most famous for founding the Opus Dei, a Catholic organization that has been accused of being a cult.

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  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.07

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  • 3.07

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Josemaría Escrivá ranks 521 out of 2,238. Before him are Saint Eustace, Eric IX of Sweden, Jethro, Saint Marinus, Pope Eleutherius, and Sabbas the Sanctified. After him are Father Damien, Ibn Hazm, Pope Victor I, Abdullah ibn Umar, Charles de Foucauld, and Mary of Egypt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Josemaría Escrivá ranks 23. Before him are Eugene Wigner, Nâzım Hikmet, William Wyler, Alfred Kastler, Walter Houser Brattain, and Kurt Alder. After him are Arne Tiselius, Meyer Lansky, Arne Jacobsen, Harold Lasswell, Marcel Breuer, and Mikhail Suslov. Among people deceased in 1975, Josemaría Escrivá ranks 19. Before him are Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Mikhail Bakhtin, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Saint-John Perse, and George Paget Thomson. After him are Graham Hill, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Jimmy Hoffa, Robert Robinson, Julian Huxley, and Antonín Novotný.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Josemaría Escrivá ranks 138 out of 2,932. Before him are James II of Aragon (1267), Alfonso VIII of Castile (1155), Carlos, Prince of Asturias (1545), Almanzor (930), Avempace (1080), and Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (1482). After him are Ibn Hazm (994), Paco Rabanne (1934), Mariana Victoria of Spain (1718), Peter IV of Aragon (1319), Inês de Castro (1325), and Antipope Benedict XIII (1328).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Spain

Among religious figures born in Spain, Josemaría Escrivá ranks 14. Before him are Francis Xavier (1506), Isidore of Seville (560), Pope Callixtus III (1379), John of the Cross (1542), Tomás de Torquemada (1420), and Vincent of Saragossa (300). After him are Ibn Hazm (994), Antipope Benedict XIII (1328), Vincent Ferrer (1350), Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía (1510), Joan Enric Vives Sicília (1949), and Eulalia of Mérida (290).

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