Guadalupe Ortiz de Landázuri Fernández de Heredia, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Guadalupe Ortiz de Landázuri Fernández de Heredia

Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1912

Place of Birth: Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Date of Death: 16-Jul-1975

Profession: chemist, university teacher

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Blessed Guadalupe Ortiz de Landázuri Fernández de Heredia (12 December 1916 – 16 July 1975) was a Spanish Roman Catholic professor and a member of the Opus Dei personal prelature.
She was one of the first women to join Opus Dei, after meeting the founder Saint Josemaría Escrivá in 1944.
She helped start Opus Dei in Mexico and also collaborated directly with Escriva in Rome.
A serious heart condition eventually claimed her life in 1975.After a number of requests from people who knew her during her life, her cause of canonization opened on 3 November 2001.
In mid-2017, Pope Francis declared that she had lived a life of heroic virtue and named her Venerable.
The same Pope confirmed a miracle attributed to her intercession (the healing of a cancer patient) in June 2018.
Her beatification was celebrated on 18 May 2019 in Madrid.