“Positio” for Tomás Alvira and Paquita Domínguez’s Beatification Causes Submitted
Tomás and Paquita, two of the first supernumeraries of Opus Dei, have taken another step forward in their cause for beatification. On July 6, the documentation on their lives and virtues was submitted to the Church and will now be studied by the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.
The Alviras: 7 Secrets for a Happy Marriage
Rafael Alvira, son of Tomas and Paquita, lists 7 keys to his parents' happy marriage. An article published in "Aleteia."
"Our Lives in His Hands": New Biography of the Alviras
Mary Ann Glendon has written the foreword for Olga Marlin's biography of Tomàs and Paquita Alvira, a married couple with nine children whose cause of canonization is underway.
Tomas Alvira. From Teacher to Teacher
The school’s energy is not produced in the directors’ offices, but in the classroom, in every classroom. But this will only be produced if it has life.
Tomás Alvira’s first meeting with St. Josemaría
The first meeting between Tomás Alvira and the Founder of Opus Dei took place during a very difficult time, as the civil war had broken out little more than a year before. It occurred in Madrid, in the midst of a religious persecution that had already produced many martyrs. Tomás used to go to the house of an old friend from the Chemistry Faculty of Saragossa, Josémaría Albareda.
News about the Alviras' Cause
On September 20, 2012, Cardinal Ruoco, Archbishop of Madrid, presided over the closing of the diocesan phase of the cause of canonization of the servants of God Tomás and Paquita Alvira.
