Sunday. St. Josemaria starts the retreat at the St. Vincent de Paul convent wherein he "saw" the Work on Tuesday the 2nd of October. The retreat finished on October the 6th. On November 1927 the founder had moved from the Priests' residence on Larrea street to an apartment he rented on 'Fernando el Catolico' street to live there with his mother and siblings, who came from Zaragoza. The financial support of that apartment came fully from St. Josemaria's income. His brother Santiago remembered that St. Josemaria used to give classes at the apartment. He also used to give classes at the Cicuendez Academy, in Roman Law and Canon Law. He was also chaplain of the Foundation of the Sick and confessor of the schools of the Apostolic Ladies. When the September extraordinary exams in the university and academies were finished, the founder had a break of two weeks. Then, he decided to to a period of Spiritual Exercises making the most of those holidays. That Sunday, he came to the Paules' convent with a bunch of papers and loose leaflets. In these he had been collecting, among other things, the extraordinary graces given to him by Our Lord throughout ten years, mainly in the form of inspirations. On October 2nd he received that supernatural light regarding the Work while he was reading all those papers, papers which before that he hadn't been able to put together.
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