This second volume of a new three-volume biography of St. Josemaria covers one of the most remarkable periods of his life: from the outbreak of the civil war in 1936 to his departure for Rome in 1946. In Republican Spain anti-Catholic persecution led St. Josemaria to do his priestly work in secret, fully aware that if caught, he could be executed - as were 6000 other priests.
This book recounts the saint's dangerous journey across the Pyrenees to the Nationalist zone, where he could exercise his priestly ministry more freely, and his tireless labours to counter (with both heroic charity and determination) the slanders that threatened to overwhelm Opus Dei, and more.
Here is an unforgettable picture of the saint's activity during the years of crisis that threatened to obliterate his great gift to the church: Opus Dei.
Andrés Váquez de Prada studied at the Universities of Valladoid and Seville, before working as a Spanish embassy Attaché for over thirty years. He has published biographies of St Thomas More and Cardinal Newman.
