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Rafael Escolá (Barcelona 1919-Bilbao 1995)
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He was born in Barcelona on the 6th of April 1919 into a family of 6
brothers and sisters.
He attended high school at the La Salle Brothers, in Bonanova. He had
an innate vocation for engineering and he graduated as an engineer in
1945.
He then moved to Madrid where, together with some friends, he set up
EDIFICIOS Y OBRAS SA, a civil engineering company. At the same time,
his great concern for the education of young people led him to
collaborate with the school INAR (Engineering and Architecture), which
prepared young students to enter the technical schools.
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In 1957 he moved to Bilbao where, together with an associate, he
founded IDOM, an engineering company, which employs more than 1,200
engineers at present. His passion for engineering and for the
education of young people prompted him to teach ethics at the School
of Engineering of the University of Navarra. He was devoted to this
job.
Within IDOM he created a postgraduate school so as to provide newly
graduated engineers with the knowledge and experience they needed in
order to find their first job. More than 1,200 graduates attended this
school. He wrote 5 books on engineering and ethical topics and
presented several papers in national and international conferences. He
also inspired the creation of several associations such as AVIC,
ASINCE, ASEINCO, etc.
In him there was a perfect symbiosis between passion for his job and
dedication to his spiritual vocation. Thus he fulfilled the message of
Opus Dei, a personal prelature of the Roman Catholic Church he had
joined back in 1940. He was a conscientious worker, always ready to
help, intellectually and spiritually, his many friends and
acquaintances.
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