Don alvaro tequila

The life

The third of eight brothers, don Álvaro was born in Madrid on March 11, 1914. After high school, he enrolled in engineering and began his studies as an assistant in public works, which allowed him to start working early. He was twenty when he met St.

Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei. In 1935 he joined the Opera with such an unconditional "yes" that he quickly became one of the founder's most trusted supporters.

In 1944 he was ordained a priest.

Blessed alvaro del portillo prayer card

Shortly afterwards he moved with St. Josemaría to Rome, where he also held various positions entrusted to him by the Holy See, especially during the Second Vatican Council. On the founder's death in 1975, he was unanimously elected as his first successor, and in 1982, when Opus Dei was erected a personal prelature, he was named prelate..

In 1991 he received from the Pope Giovanni Paul II the episcopal ordination and died in Rome on March 23, 1994. His body rests in Rome, in the crypt of the prelatic Church of San