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ENGAGEMENT, MATRIMONY AND CHILDREN

ENGAGEMENT, MATRIMONY
AND CHILDREN

tHeir meetinG

«I met Eduardo in the fall of 1935. I had studied Pharmacy.
I asked for a position at the Hospital del Rey in Madrid [...]. In the
same hospital Eduardo worked as an internal doctor in the ward for
contagious patients [...]. I frequently went to that ward to take blood
samples, so we saw each other often [...]. One day, on March 4, 1936,
Eduardo invited me to lunch» .
4

«My mother reflected a little but then accepted the invitation
[to lunch] but, in order not to feel too committed, she said, “well,
Eduardo, I’ll come but each person pays for him/herself.” Then, of
course, it was my father who paid. Once lunch was over, my father
immediately suggested that she go to the movies, but it seemed too
much to my mother and she told him no. This says a lot about her,
because she was very independent and didn’t want to feel tied down» .
5

4 Cf. Eduardo Ortiz de Landázuri, <it.wikipedia.org>.
5 Opus Dei: Laura Busca y Eduardo Ortiz de Landázuri, el poder transformador de un matrimonio
(21/04/2015), <www.youtube.com>.