Opus Dei

Pope Francis declared Montse Grases “venerable” one year ago. During a recent commemorative meeting in Rome, a number of people confirmed that her beatification process is continuing to make progress.

Fr Francisco Faus has written this Novena to enable readers – especially young people – to get to know Montse Grases better and to ask her intercession for favours.

We decided to organise a Montse Day during which the different classes would put up presentations on different aspects of Montse’s life.

The attending physicians considered my daughter's condition critical and gave no hope for her survival.

I asked Montse to intercede and save his life.

Yesterday was her birthday, and I asked her on that account.

On the 26th of April this year, the Holy Father decided that Montse's Decree of Heroic Virtues should be published and so bring her one step closer to being Beatified. Here is a translation from the original Latin.

Montse Grases (1941-1959) was recently declared venerable by Pope Francis. She loved to swim, ride a bicycle, play tennis, and hike in the mountains. With a group of friends her own age, Montse spent her summer vacations in Seva, a small town in the foothills of a mountain range north of Barcelona.

Msgr. Jose Luis Gutierrez Gomez, Postulator for Montse Grases' Cause of Canonization, answers some questions in view of the recent Decree of the Holy See confirming her heroic practice of the virtues.

A documentary about the life of Montse Grases, recently declared "venerable" by Pope Francis, who found in Opus Dei a path to make a gift to God of her joy, her youth, and the cancer that she bore with heroic example.