After celebrating Mass in the Miraflores Residence in Zaragoza, st Josemaría goes to Torreciudad to do a pilgrimage. Torreciudad was still being built (it wasn’t inaugurated until 1975).
They arrived at midday. One km before arriving to the shrine, the architects were waiting for him to show him the works. St Josemaría got out of the car and quickly took his shoes off to do his pilgrimage barefoot for the last part. He did not allow anyone else to do it. The whole way is gravel. He prayed the rosary slowly. After a while, someone told him to put his shoes back on. He answered: “After 66 years, it’s little thing what I’m doing for the Virgin. There are many shepherds that go barefoot, every day, through these cliffs. There’s nothing extraordinary”. Nevertheless after praying, when already in the shrine, after a short prayer he had to be taken to a room and be helped to remove all the little stones that were stuck in his feet. St josemaria returned to Torreciudad in 1975, one month before his death.
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