This list of Opus Dei saints and beatified people includes not only saints of the Catholic Church and those officially beatified by the Church (beati), but also those considered venerabili, servants of God or candidates for sainthood, who are faithful of the Prelature of Opus Dei.
Josemaría Escrivá, a diocesan priest in Zaragoza, Spain, received the inspiration of establishing Opus Dei (English: Work of God), a way by which Catholics might learn to sanctify themselves in and through their secular work.
[2] After its foundation, numerous people from different walks of ordinary life and nationalities became members.
Since its establishment, numerous faithful have earned a reputation for holiness and eventually canonized or beatified.
The first to reach the glories of the altar was Escrivá, who was canonized in 2002 by Pope John Paul II.