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Leader of Opus Dei dies at 84
Bishop Javier Echevarría Rodríguez, Prelate of Opus Dei, who died Dec. 12, 2016. Credit: Bohumil Petrik/CNA.
Rome, Italy, Dec 12, 2016 / 03:29 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Bishop Javier Echevarría Rodríguez, the Prelate of Opus Dei, died Monday evening at the age of 84 in Rome, several days after being hospitalized with pneumonia.
According to a Dec. 12 statement from the personal prelature, Bishop Echevarría was given the final sacraments this afternoon by his auxiliary, Msgr. Fernando Ocariz.
“Bishop Echevarría was receiving an antibiotic to fight a lung infection,” the statement added. “The clinical situation was complicated in the final hours provoking respiratory insufficiency, which resulted in his death.”
The bishop was born in Madrid in 1932, where he met St. Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, an organization dedicated to spiritual growth and discipleship among the laity which teaches its members to use their work and their ordinary activities as a way to encounter God.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/leader-of-opus-dei-dies-at-84-41332/