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During the months of February and March have been active in the region and throughout Spain to spread the life of the developer and the first militant movement
The Workers Guild of Catholic Action (HOAc) of the Diocese of Cartagena, an apostolic movement with presence of militants involved in various social realities of the working world in Murcia, Cartagena, Molina de Segura, Sewer, Cieza and Yecla, has organized various activities to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of William Rovirosa, promoter of this apostolic movement and considered an apostle of the working class.
For Yecla, on Tuesday March 18, at 9 pm, the doctor in History and militant HOAC of Murcia, Vasilisa López García, will deliver a lecture on "William Rovirosa, apostle of the working class" .
The talk will take place in the Parish of St. Obrero (Esteban Diaz Street), one of the activities organized by the parish.
Vasilisa Lopez is the author of Approaching the history of HOAC.
1946-1981 (HOAC Editions, 1995) and Christian Workers in Europe (Ediciones de la Universidad de Murcia, 2005), among other publications, as Almodóvar Malagon Thomas (1917-1984), published by Ediciones Almud (University of Castilla-La Mancha ), which was filed Feb. 27 in Almodóvar del Campo (Ciudad Real), hometown to former great friend William Rovirosa and chaplain of the HOAC.
50th Anniversary Activities
The activities to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of William Rovirosa began in Murcia on 10 February with a poster exhibition on his life and work until Friday, the 14th, the "San Fulgencio" Theological Institute of Murcia ( Street La Gloria, 22, next to the Diocesan Seminary).
The exhibition was visited by over 500 people during the week that remained open to the public.
Moreover, on February 14, at 19:30, Dr. History and militant HOAC of Murcia, Vasilisa López García, gave a talk on "William Rovirosa, apostle of the working class" in the living room acts of "San Fulgencio" Theological Institute of Murcia.
The conference coincided with the closing of the exhibition that traveled on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 February at Cieza, which could be referred to in the Parish of St. John Bosco, whose pastor, Antonio Murcia Santos, is chaplain of the HOAC and author Book Workers and bishops Franco, published in 1995.
The events organized by the HOAC continued Thursday 27 February, the date on which we will celebrate 50 years of the death of William Rovirosa, at 20 pm, with a prayer vigil in the parish of San Juan Bautista de Murcia.
A vigil was led by several priests, including Joaquín Sánchez, also chaplain of the HOAC and member of the Platform of People Affected by Mortgages (PAH).
Already in this March, a group of militants HOAC to Madrid on Sunday 9th moved to participate in a series of events organized around the figure of this considered 'Apostle of the working class'.
That day, at 11 am, reception attendees arrived from across Spain on the Esplanade of the Almudena Cathedral, where at 12 noon Eucharist presided by the Cardinal Archbishop of Madrid, was held took place Antonio M ª Rouco Varela.
Later, after a fellowship meal at 15:30 hours an Act of Homage to Rovirosa was held at the Sacred Heart College (Ferraz Street, 63), entitled "An Evening with Rovirosa"
Some facts about William Rovirosa
Guillermo Rovirosa Albet (Villanueva and Geltrú, Barcelona, ​​1897 - †Madrid, February 27, 1964) was a militant labor union and Christian Spanish, which became the main driver of the Labor Guild of Catholic Action.
It is open his beatification.
Third son of a peasant family, after the death of his father when he was only 9 years old, entered the nearby school of Escolapios Padres.
He was an outstanding school directors Electrical Industries in Barcelona student.
Check the civil war was unanimously nominated by his fellow workers' council president, which earned him that by the end of the war, General Francisco Franco sentence him to 12 years in prison.
During the war, he and his wife Caterina were forced to take refuge in a basement where they found plenty of forgotten books of Social Development, which took the opportunity to delve into the so-called labor ministry.
In the apostasy of the working class that Pius XI had already reported in 1930, was commissioned in May 1946 Rovirosa launching the Workers Guild of Catholic Action (HOAC) would constitute a bridge between the Church and the working class, thanks to most of its early members were converts from anarcho-communism and socialism.
He dedicated his life to the HOAc, giving it its militant spirit, despite not hold any charge and organic living from his work as an inventor.
Toured Spain giving courses and workshops, living poorly.
After a voluntary recall in the monastery of Montserrat, many of his friends that militant spirit impregnated, given to Christ and no one else, you're invited to collaborate in the implementation of the publishing ZYX (first publisher to social issues during the Franco ) of which will be its first president.
"Who is the company?"
It is the first book published by ZYX Rovirosa and its author.
In this task he was overtaken by death in Madrid on February 27, 1964.
On May 9, 2003 in Madrid began his beatification.
Source: Agencias
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