Opus Dei

I have bad feet and a lot of arthritis, but thanks to her I now have a pair of shoes that I call my “Dora shoes” because they don’t hurt my feet. She is my advisor on these topics.

I read the book "Dora del Hoyo: A Lighted Lamp" almost in one-sitting after someone lent it to me. At the time, one of my daughters was suffering a lot of pain due to a kidney stone. She was home alone with her one-month old baby...

A young priest was encountering difficulties in his efforts to restore the run-down parish church in our small town. We prayed to Dora's intercession and within the year, the church was able to reopen.

During the recent conflicts taking place in my country, the major part of the fighting has taken place in the city. In the suburbs where violence first broke out, there is a school which provides professional formation for women...

While hiking a mountain, upon arriving at our destination - 1400 meters altitude - an intense fog settled in, and we could no longer see the trail we needed to follow. We asked another hiker if the fog was supposed to let up.

A brother and sister in Australia had not been speaking to each other for a long time. Through their father's praying to the intercession of Dora del Hoyo, the siblings began speaking to each other again.

Homily of Archbishop Arthur Roche, Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship, given in Westminster Cathedral for the feast of Blessed Alvaro del Portillo, 12 May 2015.

For the feast of Blessed Alvaro on May 12, Bishop Javier Echevarría celebrated a solemn Mass in the basilica of San Eugenio in Rome. Video summary with English subtitles

A newsletter about the beatification of Blessed Alvaro del Portillo in September 2014 in Madrid.

The stories of Dora del Hoyo and Blessed Alvaro del Portillo - both in process of canonization - are very much connected. Both responded with fidelity to God's call to spread throughout the world the message that all of us can be saints in ordinary life, through ordinary work.