Professors from the University of Navarra collaborate with the fifth volume of 'Studia et Documenta'.
He contributes new data for the history of St. Josemaría Escrivá and Opus Dei.
Several professors of the University of Navarra have collaborated in issue five of the journal Studia et Documenta (2011), a publication of the high school Histórico San Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, graduate Universidad, work and business between decolonization and development. Initiatives promoted by St. Josemaría between the 1950s and 1960s.
Francisco Ponz and Onésimo Díaz write a bibliographical note on Juan Jiménez Vargas, a physician who accompanied St. Josemaría Escrivá during the difficult times of the Civil War and who was the driving force behind the launching of School of Medicine.
Different authors address four apostolic works promoted by St. Josemaría: a school of hospitality and services(Kibondeni) in Kenya, by Christine Gichure; the IESE business school in Spain, by Antonio Argandoña; and two university residences(Müngersdorf and Netherhall House) in Germany and the United Kingdom, by Barbara Schellenberger and James Pereiro, respectively.
In another section, Carlo Pioppi writes about the interviews of the founder of Opus Dei with ecclesiastical personalities during the years of the Second Vatican Council. In the same section there is a biographical sketch of one of the oldest people in Opus Dei: Salvadora del Hoyo. This article is written by Ana Sastre, author of a biography of St. Josemaría.
Also of note are notes by the historian José Orlandis, recently deceased, edited by Josep Ignasi Saranyana. These allow us to know the first impressions and direct information that Pope Pius XII received about Opus Dei.
Alfredo Méndiz signature also includes a document on a Marian pilgrimage made by St. Josemaría Escrivá in 1935, and a note on The Way, which appears together with another from the same book written by Carmen Sánchez Lanza. It also includes a text by Fernando Crovetto that speaks of the ecclesiastical context of the archdiocese of Zaragoza in the first decades of the 20th century.
The last document published in this volume is a letter from Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio to Bishop Alvaro del Portillo, dated January 17, 1983, on personal prelatures.
Like the previous issues, this issue also offers a bibliographical section with reviews and reviews, and a new submission of the already monumental bibliographical list dedicated to the "bibliography General" on St. Josemaría and Opus Dei. The first three issues of Studia et Documenta have attempted to offer an exhaustive bibliography on St. Josemaría up to 2002, while the fourth, and now this fifth issue, deals with the "bibliography General on Opus Dei," which will be continued in the following volumes.