A second volume of a three-part biography of St Josemaría Escrivá written by William Keenan is now out. “The Path Through the Mountains”, which has been recently published in Britain, is now also available on Amazon.com in the USA. 

With the drama of a thriller, the story opens as the priest and a handful of followers escape across the Pyrenees during the Spanish Civil War. They climb the mountains at night in the bitter cold of winter, fleeing the communist controlled zone - a "hell on earth" where God cannot be mentioned and where priests, nuns and other Catholics risk arrest and execution.

Through the initimate notes and letters of this saint, the book gives vivid glimpses into the soul of a man striving for sanctity in a violent and hate-filled world. At the end of the Civil War in 1939, St Josemaría, with ten men and one woman to help him, sets out once more to spread a most important spiritual message of our time, given to him by God in 1928: that holiness is not just for priests and nuns but also for ordinary men and women, who can become saints through their everyday lives and work. The book ends with his journey to Rome to continue the work of Opus Dei from the centre of Christendom. 

“The Day the Bells Rang Out”, the first book of the trilogy is also available in Amazon UK and Amazon.com. It covers the years from his birth in 1902 to the start of the Spanish Civil War.