St. Josemaria always saw Isidoro’s vocation as something providential. In a get-together with Bl. Alvaro in Manchester with members of the Work he mentioned: “Today is the 50th anniversary of Isidoro Zorzano joining Opus Dei, one of the first vocations. Our father was thinking of him since he received God’s message to start Opus Dei. He had been his classmate in high school. They hadn’t seen each other since then, but our father used to pray a lot for him. One day, in Madrid, when leaving the place where he was (The foundation of St. Isabel), our father felt this sort of force, an impulse to go back home through streets other than those he usually took. And he ran into Isidoro, who then was a young railway engineer who was working in the south of Spain. Something similar had happened to him and he told our father: ‘I came here because something special brought me. I don’t usually take this way’. Our father saw that it was providential. He spoke to him about vocation to Opus Dei. And he said yes to the vocation, and he was always faithful. This happened on a day like today, feast of St. Bartholomew. Every time this date came up, our father would thank God joyfully, because Isidoro was one of the first vocations”.
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