February 17th, 1949 Father José Luis Muzquiz and Father Salvador Martínez Ferigle arrive in New York, late in the evening, by plane (“The Star of Michigan”). There awaits José María Albareda, who had been living in USA for a couple of years already. St. Josemaría told them when giving them the farewell blessing, right there at the airport (he was on his way to Rome): “You will find hard soil, with thorns and thistle. And you will have to put your whole soul in your work, the same way that the plough goes in the soil”. He gave them an image of our Lady which, during the civil war, had been in Burgos (currently it is in the house of the delegation of Chicago). The next day Father José Luis Múzquiz celebrated in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Then they went to Boston for two days and then to Chicago, where they settled.
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