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BIOGRAPHY 1

EDUARDO ORTIZ DE LANDÁZURI
(1910-1985)

Eduardo was born in Segovia (Spain) on October 31, 1910.

His career

Although family tradition steered him towards a military
career, Eduardo chose to study Medicine. He graduated in 1933 and
in 1944, after the Spanish Civil War, being acquitted of the charge
of having participated in a conspiracy, he obtained his doctorate. He
continued his university career and, in September 1958, he joined
the new Faculty of Medicine of the University of Navarra and the
University Clinic.

trials and conversion

At the beginning of the Civil War, his father, with a military
career, was arrested, tried and sentenced to be executed. Eduardo
managed to negotiate his release, but his father refused. «We stayed
with him until after five in the morning, the hour in which he would
BIOGRAPHY [my sister] Guadalupe and I stayed with our parents: about my
be shot. [...] Many things could be said about that night in which

father’s integrity in not accepting a pardon that would have turned
him against his comrades [...] and about Guadalupe’s courage that
remained impassive, with her serenity, giving strength to my mother
2
and of course to me» . Eduardo would always remember those days
as the most painful of his life; a deep religious crisis followed that led
him to a conversion to God.

1 Cf. Eduardo Ortiz de Landázuri (04/03/2006), <www.opusdei.org>.
2 «Meglio morire che macchiare la vita»: il coraggio e la serenità di Guadalupe (03/01/2019),
<www.opusdei.org>.