Vida y milagros de Monseñor Escrivá de Balaguer, fundador del Opus Dei

Synopsis of Vida y milagros de Monseñor Escrivá de Balaguer, fundador del Opus Dei

«Vida y milagros de Monseñor Escrivá de Balaguer, fundador del Opus Dei» is the biography by Luis Carandell, published by Editorial Laia in paperback.

The biography attempts to penetrate the figure of José María Escrivá de Balaguer, founder of Opus Dei, despite the secrecy that surrounded him. Carandell reviews his origins as the son of a merchant from Barbastro, his adoption of the surname «de Balaguer» and the title of Marquis of Peralta, and places him within the Spanish national-Catholicism of the 1940s.

Published in 1975 in the Laia paperback collection (no. 15), with a prologue by Alfonso C. Comín. It has 209 pages in Spanish and includes black-and-white photographs.

For readers of historical biographies and works on 20th-century Spain, as well as for those who wish to delve deeper into the figure of Escrivá de Balaguer.