Putting Down Roots by John Coverdale (author of Uncommon Faith) is the exciting story of the beginnings of Opus Dei in the U.S. It tells how Fr. Joseph Muzquiz came to America in 1949 to begin Opus Dei with very little money and only a rudimentary command of the language. At the time, only a handful of Americans had ever heard of Opus Dei. But by the time he passed away in 1983, Opus Dei had put down deep roots in this country.
In Putting Down Roots, we learn many remarkable details about Fr. Joseph’s life including:
Today, many people in the United States and in other countries pray to Fr. Joseph, as he was called in this country, and hope that one day the Church will declare him a saint. This book explains why.
Putting Down Roots contains eight pages of photos.
John Coverdale has a doctorate in history from the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate in law from the University of Chicago. He has taught Spanish history at Princeton University and Northwestern University, and law at Seton Hall University School of Law. His publications include Italian Intervention in the Spanish Civil War; The Basque Phase of Spain’s First Carlist War; The Political Transformation of Spain after Franco; Uncommon Courage: The Early Years of Opus Dei; Saxum: The Life of Alvaro del Portillo; Opus Dei: A History; and Putting Down Roots: Father Joseph Múzquiz and the Growth of Opus Dei.
| SKU/ISBN | 9781594170812 |
| Product Number | 70812 |
| Format | Paperback |
