This 2nd of October (tuesday) st Josemaria was in his room after having heard a meditation (he had started a retreat on the 30th of september in the Convent of the Paules in Madrid). He was carrying the notes he had been taking and gathering during the previous years about the aspirations, resolutions and graces that God had given him. Then, while reading those papers he received the supernatural illumination of the Work. According to the retreat timetable, that happened between 10 and 11am. He had already celebrated Holy Mass (btw 7 and 8am):
"I received the inspiration about all the Work, while I was reading those papers. Deeply moved I knelt -I was alone in my room, between talk and talk- gave thanks to the Lord, and y remember with excitement the sound of the bells of the Church of Our Lady of Angels (...)".
From those bells, after the war there was only one left. In october 1972, it was given to the founder as a gift. It is now at the sanctuary of Torreciudad.
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