Back in 2001 Javier was 26 years old and worked in a graphic arts business. He was on the road all day, traveling up and down the highways. On one especially rainy day in Valencia, his car skidded into the opposite lane just as a truck was approaching. After weeks of intense suffering, he was left a tetraplegic.
At that time he had been dating Begoña, who worked as a travel agent and was a Cooperator of Opus Dei. Begoña prayed to Saint Josemaría and Eduardo Ortiz de Landázuri (a doctor in the process of beatification) for Javier’s recovery. “He was so badly injured that for me it’s a miracle he even survived,” she says.
Two years later, against everyone’s advice, they decided to get married. “But I’m going to be your wife. Not your caregiver or nurse,” Begoña told him. And that’s how it has turned out. Over the years she has often had to take special care of Javier, but always with the love of a spouse.