Using a wide range of biographical sources and writings, this booklet brings together many episodes from the life of St Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei, who through the dark and terrifying days of the Spanish Civil War and the difficulties of persecutions and misunderstandings from within the Church, showed the immeasurable healing power of this divine attribute.

Francesc Faus is a priest of the Opus Dei Prelature, poet and writer with over twenty published works. Born in Barcelona in 1931, since 1961 he lives in Sao Paulo.