Red Terror (Spain)

"Execution" of the Sacred Heart by a Republican firing squad is a famous example of "an assault on the public presence of Catholicism".[1] The image was originally published in the London Daily Mail with a caption noting the "Spanish Reds' war on religion".[2]

The Red Terror in Spain (Spanish: Terror Rojo)[3] is the name given by historians to various acts of violence committed from 1936 until the end of the Spanish Civil War "by sections of nearly all the leftist groups".[4][5] News of the rightist military coup in 1936 unleashed a social revolutionary response, and no republican region escaped revolutionary and anticlerical violence - though in the Basque Country this was minimal.[6] The violence consisted of the killing of tens of thousands of people (including 6,832[7] members of the Catholic clergy, the vast majority in the summer of 1936 in the wake of the military coup), as well as attacks on landowners, industrialists, and politicians, and the desecration and burning of monasteries and churches.[7]

A process of political polarisation had characterised the Spanish Second Republic – party divisions became increasingly embittered and questions of religious identity came to assume a major political significance. Electorally, the Church had identified itself with the Right, which had set itself against social reform.[8]

The failed pronunciamiento of 1936 set loose a violent onslaught on those that revolutionaries in the Republican zone identified as enemies; "where the rebellion failed, for several months afterwards merely to be identified as a priest, a religious or simply a militant Christian or member of some apostolic or pious organization, was enough for a person to be executed without trial".[9]

In recent years the Catholic Church has beatified hundreds of the victims, 498 of them on 28 October 2007 in a spectacular ceremony, the largest single number of beatifications in the church's history.[10]

Some estimates of the Red Terror range from 38,000[11] to 72,344 lives.[12] Paul Preston, speaking in 2012 at the time of the publication of his book The Spanish Holocaust, put the figure at a little under 50,000.

Historian Julio de la Cueva has written that, "despite the fact that the Church... suffer[ed] appalling persecution" in the Loyalist rearguard, the events have so far met not only with "the embarrassing partiality of ecclesiastical scholars, but also with the embarrassed silence or attempts at justification of a large number of historians and memoirists".[7] Analysts such as Helen Graham have linked the Red and White Terrors, pointing out that it was the military coup that allowed the culture of brutal violence to flourish. Graham wrote of the coup, "...its original act of violence was that it killed off the possibility of other forms of peaceful political evolution".[13] Others see the persecution and violence as predating the coup and found in what they see as a "radical and antidemocratic" anticlericalism of the Republic and its constitution, including dissolution of the Jesuits in 1932, nationalization of virtually all church property in 1933, prohibition on teaching religion in schools, prohibition on teaching by clergy, and violent persecution proper beginning in 1934 in Asturias with the murder of 37 priests, religious and seminarians and burning of 58 churches.[14]

Background

The revolution of 1931 that established the Second Republic and the Spanish Constitution of 1931 brought to power an anticlerical government.[15] The relationship between the new secular Republic and the Catholic Church, who resented it, was fraught from the start. Cardinal Pedro Segura, the primate of Spain, urged Catholics to vote in future elections against an administration which in his view wanted to destroy religion.[16] Those who sought to lead the 'ordinary faithful' had insisted that Catholics had only one political choice — the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right (CEDA): "Voting for the CEDA was presented as a simple duty; good Catholics would go to Mass on Sunday and support the political right".[17]

The constitution was largely sound, generally according thorough civil liberties and representation, the notable exclusion being the rights of Catholics, a flaw which prevented the forming of an expansive democratic majority.[18] The controversial articles 26 and 27 of the constitution, strictly controlled Church property and prohibited religious orders from engaging in education.[19] Not only advocates of establishment of religion but also advocates of church/state separation saw the constitution as hostile; one such advocate of separation, Jose Ortega y Gasset, stated "the article in which the Constitution legislates the actions of the Church seems highly improper to me".[20] In 1933, Pope Pius XI condemned the Spanish Government's deprivation of the civil liberties of Catholics in the encyclical Dilectissima Nobis (On Oppression Of The Church Of Spain )".[21]

Historian Vicente Carcel Orti asserts that anticlerical Freemasons played a large part in the anti-Catholic acts of the government since they held key government positions, including at least 183 deputies in the Cortes (the Spanish parliament), and thus were instrumental in the making of anti-Catholic laws.[14] As early as March 1933 Abilia Arroyo de Roman had declared at a rally in the Salamancan pueblo of Macotera that Spain was governed by Masonic lodges, intent on 'decatholicizing' Spain, while the Gaceta Regional blamed the Law of Congregations on 'an occult power' which had taken refuge in Spain 'in order to carry out its experiments'.

Since the left considered reform of the anticlerical aspects of the constitution as totally unacceptable, Historian Stanley Payne believed "the Republic as a democratic constitutional regime was doomed from the outset".[18] and it has been posited that such a "hostile" approach to the issues of church and state were a substantial cause of the breakdown of democracy and the onset of civil war.[22] One legal commentator has stated plainly "the gravest mistake of the Constitution of 1931—Spain's last democratic Constitution prior to 1978—was its hostile attitude towards the Catholic Church".[23] The historian Mary Vincent, in her study of the Church in Salamanca in the 1930s, believes this Republican legislation, in affecting the devotional lives of ordinary Catholics, "greatly eased the task of its opponents".

Following the general election of February 16, 1936, political bitterness grew in Spain. Violence between the government and its supporters, the Popular Front, whose leadership was clearly moving towards the left (abandoning constitutional Republicanism for leftist revolution[24]) and the opposition accelerated, culminating in a military revolt of right-wing generals in July of that year. As the year progressed Nationalist and Republican persecution grew, and republicans began attacking churches, occupying land for redistribution and attacking nationalist politicians in a process of tit-for-tat violence.

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1933 election and aftermath

Leading up to the Civil War, the state of the political establishment had been brutal and violent for some time. In the 1933 elections to the Cortes Generales, the CEDA won a plurality of seats. It was however not enough to form a majority. Despite the results, then President Niceto Alcalá-Zamora declined to invite the leader of the CEDA to form a government and instead invited the Radical Republican Party and its leader Alejandro Lerroux to do so. CEDA supported the Lerroux government; it later demanded and, on October 1, 1934, received three ministerial positions. Hostility between both the left and the right increased after the formation of the Government. Spain experienced general strikes and street conflicts. Noted among the strikes was the miners' revolt in northern Spain and riots in Madrid. Nearly all rebellions were crushed by the Government and political arrests followed.

Lerroux's alliance with the right, his harsh suppression of the revolt in 1934, and the Stra-Perlo scandal combined to leave him and his party with little support going into the 1936 election. (Lerroux himself lost his seat in parliament.)

1934 murder of priests and religious in Asturias

The murder of 37 priests, brothers and seminarians by leftists in Asturias marks what some see as the beginning of the Red Terror.[14] In October 1934, the Asturian Revolution was strongly anticlerical and involved violence against priests and religious and the destruction of 58 churches, actions that had been rare until that time.[25]

Turón, one of the locales of anticlerical violence, a coal-mining town in the Asturias Province, was a hub of anti-government and anticlerical agitation.[26] The De La Salle Brothers, who ran a school there aggravated the leftists who ran Turón because of their exercise of religion, specifically their flouting of the constitutional prohibition on religious instruction.[26] On October 5, 1934, the agents of the local rebel government invaded the order's residence on the pretext that they had concealed weapons.[26][26] A Passionist priest, Fr. Inocencio, now Saint Innocencio of Mary Immaculate, who had arrived the evening of October 4 was about to say Mass for the brothers.[26] He and the brothers were taken and held without trial, then summarily shot in the middle of the night in the cemetery.[26]

1936 Popular Front victory and aftermath

In the 1936 Elections a new coalition of socialists (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, PSOE), liberals (Republican Left and the Republican Union Party), Communists, and various regional nationalist groups won the extremely tight election. The results gave 34 percent of the popular vote to the Popular Front and 33 percent to the incumbent government of the CEDA. This result, when coupled with the Socialists' refusal to participate in the new government, led to a general fear of revolution. This was made only more apparent when Largo Caballero, hailed as "the Spanish Lenin" by Pravda, announced that the country was on the cusp of revolution.

Early outbreak of violence

Following the outbreak of full-scale civil war there was an explosion of atrocities in both the Nationalist and Republican zones.

The days of the greatest anticlerical bloodletting were at the beginning of the civil war, in the aftermath of the generals' rising, and large areas of the country fell under the control of local loyalists and militias.[27] A large part of the terror consisted of a perceived settlement of accounts against bosses and clergy as they lost their powerful position in the social revolution and move towards extremism that took place in the first months of the civil war.[28] According to historian Antony Beevor: "In republican territory the worst of the violence was mainly a sudden and quickly spent reaction of suppressed fear, exacerbated by desires of revenge for the past" — in contrast with, "the relentless purging of 'reds and atheists' in nationalist territory".[29] After the generals' coup d'état on 17–18 July 1936, the remaining days in July saw 861 priests and religious lose their lives, 95 of them on 25 July, feast day of St James, patron saint of Spain. August saw a further 2,077 clerical victims. After just two months of civil war, 3400 priests, monks and nuns had been murdered.[30]

According to recent research, the Republican death squads were heavily staffed by members of the Soviet secret police, or NKVD. According to author Donald Rayfield, "Stalin, Yezhov, and Beria distrusted Soviet participants in the Spanish war. Military advisors like Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko, journalists like Koltsov were open to infection by the heresies, especially Trotsky's, prevalent among the Republic's supporters. NKVD agents sent to Spain were therefore keener on abducting and murdering anti-Stalinists among Republican leaders and International Brigade commanders than on fighting Francisco Franco. The defeat of the Republic, in Stalin's eyes, was caused not by the NKVD's diversionary efforts, but by the treachery of the heretics."[31]

The most famous member of the Loyalist assassination squads was Erich Mielke, the future head of the East German Ministry for State Security.[32]

According to Stanely Payne, "During the first months of the fighting most of the deaths did not come from combat on the battlefield but from political executions in the rear—the 'Red' and 'White' terrors. The terror consisted of semi-organized actions perpetrated by almost all of the leftist groups, Basque nationalists, largely Catholic but still mostly aligned with the Republicans, being an exception.[4] Payne also contends that, unlike the repression by the right, which "was concentrated against the most dangerous opposition elements", the Republican attacks were more irrational, "murdering innocent people and letting some of the more dangerous go free. Moreover, one of the main targets of the Red terror was the clergy, most of whom were not engaged in overt opposition".[33] Describing specifically the Red Terror, Stanley Payne states that it "began with the murder of some of the rebels as they attempted to surrender after their revolt had failed in several of the key cities. From there it broadened out to wholesale arrests, and sometimes wholesale executions, of landowners and industrialists, people associated with right-wing groups or the Catholic Church".[34] The Red Terror was "not an irrepressible outpouring of hatred by the man in the street for his 'oppressors,' but a semi-organized activity carried out by sections of nearly all the leftist groups".[35]

By contrast, historians such as Helen Graham,[36] Paul Preston,[37] Antony Beevor,[38] Gabriel Jackson,[39] Hugh Thomas, and Ian Gibson[40] have stated that the mass executions behind the Nationalist lines were organized and approved by the Nationalist rebel authorities, while the executions behind the Republican lines were the result of the breakdown of the republican state and the anarchy. This is concurred by Francisco Partaloa, prosecutor of the Madrid High Court of Justice (Tribunal Supremo de Madrid) and Queipo de Llano's friend, who observed repression in both zones.[41]

As early as 11 May 1931, when mob violence against the Republic's perceived enemies had led to the burning of churches, convents, and religious schools, the Church had sometimes been seen as the ally of the authoritarian right. The academic Mary Vincent has written that: "There was no doubt that the Church would line up with the rebels against the Republic. The Jesuit priests of the city of Salamanca were among the first volunteers to present themselves to the military authorities...The tragedy of the Second Republic was that it abetted its own destruction; the tragedy of the Church was that it became so closely allied with its self-styled defenders".[42] During the war the nationalists claimed that 20,000 priests had been killed; today the figure is put at 4,184 priests, 2,365 members of other religious institutes and 283 nuns, the vast majority during the summer of 1936.[43]

Historian Stanley Payne has called the terror the "most extensive and violent persecution of Catholicism in Western History, in some way even more intense than that of the French Revolution", driving Catholics, left then with little alternative, to the Nationalists even more than would have been expected.[44]

Death toll

Figures for the Red Terror range from 38,000 to 110,000. The 'red terror' according to Beevor killed 38,000".[45] According to Julio de la Cueva, the toll of the Red Terror was 72,344 lives.[12] Hugh Thomas and Paul Preston said that the death toll was 55,000,[46][47] and the Spanish historian Julian Casanova said that the death toll was fewer than 60,000.[48]

Previously, Payne had suggested that, "The toll taken by the respective terrors may never be known exactly. The left slaughtered more in the first months, but the Nationalist repression probably reached its height only after the war had ended, when punishment was exacted and vengeance wreaked on the vanquished left. The White Terror may have slain 50,000, perhaps fewer, during the war. The Franco government now gives the names of 61,000 victims of the Red Terror, but this is not subject to objective verification. The number of victims of the Nationalist repression, during and after the war, was undoubtedly greater than that".[49] In Checas de Madrid (ISBN 84-9793-168-8), journalist and historian César Vidal comes to a nationwide total of 110,965 victims of Republican repression; 11,705 people being killed in Madrid alone.[50] Historian Santos Juliá, in the work Víctimas de la guerra civil provides approximate figures: about 50,000 victims of the Republican repression; about 100,000 victims of the Francoist repression during the war with some 40,000 after the war.[51]

Toll on clergy

Estimates of the number of religious men killed vary greatly. One estimate is that of the 30,000 priests and monks in Spain in 1936, 13% of the secular priests and 23% of the monks were killed, amounting to 6800 religious personnel altogether.[7][52] The figures break down as follows: Some 283 women religious were killed, some of them badly tortured.[53] 13 bishops were killed from the dioceses of Siguenza Lleida, Cuenca, Barbastro, Segorbe, Jaén, Ciudad Real, Almeria, Guadix, Barcelona, Teruel and the auxiliary of Tarragona.[53] Aware of the dangers, they all decided to remain in their cities. I cannot go, only here is my responsibility, whatever may happen, so said the Bishop of Cuenca.[53] In addition 4,172 diocesan priests, 2,364 monks and friars, among them 259 Claretians, 226 Franciscans, 204 Piarists, 176 Brothers of Mary, 165 Christian Brothers (also called the De La Salle Brothers), 155 Augustinians, 132 Dominicans, and 114 Jesuits were killed.[54] In some dioceses, the number of secular priests killed are overwhelming:

In 2001 the Catholic Church beatified hundreds of Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War[55] and beatified 498 more on October 28, 2007.[56]

In October 2008, the Spanish newspaper La Razon published an article on the number of murders of Catholic clergy members and religious people.[57]

Attitudes

Republican side

Attitudes to the "red terror" varied on the Republican side. President Manuel Azaña made the well-publicized comment that all of the convents in Madrid were not worth one Republican life.[58] Yet equally commonly cited, for example, is the speech by the Socialist leader Indalecio Prieto on Madrid radio on 9 August 1936 pleading that Republican militiamen not "imitate" the murderous actions of the military rebels and also the public condemnation of arbitrary "justice" by Julián Zugazagoitia, the editor of El Socialista, the Socialist Party newspaper, on 23 August.[59]

Julius Ruiz goes on to note, however, that "not cited [...] are El Socialista's regular reports extolling the work of the Atadell brigade", a group of Republican agents who engaged in detentions and frequently murders of (in the end) up to 800 Nationalists. "On 27 September 1936", Ruiz continues, "an editorial on the brigade stressed that its 'work, more than useful, is necessary. Indispensable.' Similarly, the Prieto-controlled Madrid daily Informaciones carried numerous articles on the activities of the Atadell brigade during the summer of 1936".[59]

Nationalist side

The Catholic hierarchy believed that, on the cusp of the Civil war, the violence directed against it was the result of a plan; "a program of systematic persecution of the Church was planned to the last detail".[60]José Calvo Sotelo told the Spanish Parliament in April 1936, that in six weeks of popular front government, from Mid-February 15 to April 2, 1936, some 199 attacks were carried out, 36 of them in Churches. He listed 136 fires and fire bombings, which included 106 burned Catholic Churches and 56 Churches otherwise destroyed. He claimed 74 persons dead and 345 persons injured.[61][62]

The attitudes of the Catholic side towards the government and the ensuing Civil War was expressed in a joint Episcopal letter from July 1, 1937. It was addressed by the Spanish bishops to all bishops of the Catholic world.[63] Spain, said the bishops, is divided into two hostile camps, of which one side expresses anti-religious and anti-Spanish terror, and the other side upholds the respect for the religious and national order. The Church is pastorally oriented and not willing to sell its freedom to politics. But under these circumstances, she has no option but to side with those who started out defending her freedom and right to exist.[63]

The attitudes of the people in the national zone were characterized by fear, hope and by religious revival. Victories were celebrated with religious services, anticlerical laws were abolished and religious education was made legal again. Catholic chaplains were re-introduced into the army. The attitudes towards the Church had changed from hostility to admiration.[64]

Reported murders

Conclusion and aftermath

With the total 1939 victory of the Nationalists over the Republicans in the Civil War in Spain, the Red Terror ended in that country, although individual terror attacks seem to have continued sporadically, carried out by remnant Communists and Socialists, hiding in French border regions, but without great results. Throughout the country, the Catholic Church held Te Deums to thank God for the outcome. Numerous left-wing personalities were tried for the Red Terror, not all of them were guilty. Others fled to the Soviet Union, where a number of them "disappeared" in Joseph Stalin's Gulags. Franco's victory was followed by thousands of summary executions (remains of 35,000 people are estimated by the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH) to still lie in mass graves)[73] and imprisonments, while many were put to forced labour, building railways, drying out swamps, digging canals (La Corchuela, the Canal of the Bajo Guadalquivir), construction of the Valle de los Caídos monument, etc. The 1940 shooting of the president of the Catalan government, Lluís Companys, was one of the most notable cases of this early repression. Although leftists suffered from an important death-toll, the Spanish intelligentsia, atheists and military and government figures who had remained loyal to the Madrid government during the war were also targeted by the repression.

The new Pope Pius XII sent a radio message of congratulation to the Spanish Government, clerics and people on April 16, 1939. He referred to the denunciation of his predecessor, Pope Pius XI, who described past horrors and the need to defend and restore the rights of God and religion. The pope stated that the victims of terror died for Jesus Christ. He wished peace and prosperity upon the Spanish people, appealing to them to punish criminals but to exercise leniency and Spanish generosity against the many who were on the other side.[74] He asked for their full participation in society and entrusted them to the compassion of the Church in Spain.[75] In 2007 the Vatican beatified 498 priests killed by the Republican army during the civil war. Relatives of Republican religious killed by the National army have requested similar recognition, criticizing the unequal treatment.[76]

See also

References

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Notes

  1. ↑ Ealham, Chris and Michael Richards, The Splintering of Spain, p. 80, 168, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-521-82178-9, ISBN 978-0-521-82178-0
  2. ↑ Shots of War: Photojournalism During the Spanish Civil War
  3. ↑ Unearthing Franco's Legacy, Julian Casanova, pp. 105-106, University of Notre Dame Press, 2010 ISBN 0-268-03268-8
  4. 1 2 Payne, Stanley G. A History of Spain and Portugal, Vol. 2, Ch. 26, p. 650 (Print Edition: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973) (Library of Iberian Resources Online, Accessed May 15, 2007)
  5. ↑ Beevor, Antony (2006), The Battle For Spain; The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939, p. 81 Weidenfeld and Nicholson
  6. ↑ Mary Vincent, The Splintering of Spain, pp. 70-71
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 de la Cueva 1998, p. 355
  8. ↑ Hilari Raguer, Gunpowder and Incense, p. 115
  9. ↑ Raguer, p. 126
  10. ↑ http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=25781
  11. ↑ Beevor, Antony. The Battle for Spain; The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. Penguin Books. 2006. London. p. 87
  12. 1 2 de la Cueva, Julio, "Religious Persecution", Journal of Contemporary History, 3, 198, pp. 355-369. JSTOR 261121
  13. ↑ Unearthing Franco's Legacy, University of Notre Dame Press, ISBN 0-268-03268-8 p. 7
  14. 1 2 3 Redzioch, Wlodzimierz (interviewing historian Vicente Carcel Orti) The Martyrs of Spain's Civil War, Catholic Culture
  15. ↑ Anticlericalism Britannica Online Encyclopedia
  16. ↑ A. Beevor, Battle for Spain p.23
  17. ↑ Mary Vincent, Catholicism in the Spanish Second Republic, p. 1
  18. 1 2 Payne, Stanley G. A History of Spain and Portugal, Vol. 2, Ch. 25, p. 632 (Print Edition: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973) (LIBRARY OF IBERIAN RESOURCES ONLINE Accessed May 30, 2007)
  19. ↑ Smith, Angel, Historical Dictionary of Spain, p. 195, Rowman & Littlefield 2008
  20. ↑ Paz, Jose Antonio Souto Perspectives on religious freedom in Spain Brigham Young University Law Review Jan. 1, 2001
  21. ↑ Dilectissima Nobis, 2
  22. ↑ Stepan, Alfred, Arguing Comparative Politics, p. 221, Oxford University Press
  23. ↑ Martinez-Torron, Javier Freedom of religion in the case law of the Spanish Constitutional court Brigham Young University Law Review 2001
  24. ↑ Payne p. 646–647.
  25. ↑ Coverdale, John F., Uncommon faith: the early years of Opus Dei, 1928-1943, p. 148, Scepter 2002
  26. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Martyrs of Turon
  27. ↑ Beevor 2006, pp. 83–86
  28. ↑ Beevor 2006, p. 83
  29. ↑ Beevor, p. 91
  30. ↑ The Splintering of Spain, p. 68
  31. ↑ Donald Rayfield, Stalin and his Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him, Random House, 2004. pp. 362–363.
  32. ↑ John Koehler, "The Stasi", p. 48.
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  38. ↑ Beevor, Antony. The Battle for Spain, The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. Penguin Books. 2006. London. pp.86-87
  39. ↑ Jackson, Gabriel. The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939 Princeton University Press. 1967. Princeton. p.305
  40. ↑ Gibson, Ian. The Assassination of Federico García Lorca. Penguin Books. London. 1983. p.168
  41. ↑ "Cuadernos de historia (Santiago) - LA REPRESIÓN: EL ADN DEL FRANQUISMO ESPAÑOL" (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 May 2015. I had the opportunity of being a witness to the repression in both areas. In the Nationalist side it was planned, methodical, cold. As they did not trust the people the authorities imposed their will by means of terror, committing atrocities in order to achieve their aim. Atrocities also took place in the Popular Front zone; that was something which both areas had in common. But the main difference was that in the Republican zone the crimes were carried out by the populace in moments of passion, not by the authorities. The latter always tried to stop them. The assistance that I received from the Spanish Republican authorities in order to flee to safety, is only one of the many examples. But this was not the case in the Nationalist zone"
  42. ↑ Mary Vincent, Catholicism in the Second Spanish Republic, pp. 248, 258
  43. ↑ Callahan, La Iglesia catolica en Espana, p. 282
  44. ↑ Payne, Stanley Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World, p. 13, 2008 Yale University Press
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  46. ↑ Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War. Penguin Books. 2001. London. p. 900
  47. ↑ Preston, Paul. The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, revolution & revenge. Harper Perennial. 2006. London. p.233
  48. ↑ Casanova, Julian. The Spanish republic and civil war. Cambridge University Press. 2010. New York. p. 181
  49. ↑ Payne p. 650.
  50. ↑ International justice begins at home by Carlos Alberto Montaner, Miami Herald, August 4, 2003
  51. ↑ "Apéndice. Las cifras. Estado de la cuestión (Appendix. The figures. State-of-the-art)", Víctimas de la guerra civil (Victims of the civil war) (in Spanish), Barcelona, 2005, p. 411, ISBN 84-8460-333-4
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  53. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Jedin 617
  54. ↑ Beevor 2006, pp. ???
  55. ↑ New Evangelization with the Saints, L'Osservatore Romano 28 November 2001, p. 3(Weekly English Edition)
  56. ↑ Tucson priests one step away from sainthood Arizona Star 06.12.2007
  57. ↑ http://www.larazon.es/3/seccion/Espa%F1a (bad link)
  58. 1 2 Mitchell 1983, p. 17
  59. 1 2 Ruiz 2007, p. 100
  60. ↑ Montero, 52
  61. ↑ Jedin 616
  62. ↑ Thomas 1976, p. 206–208.
  63. 1 2 Granados, 348
  64. ↑ Jedin 618
  65. 1 2 3 Thomas 1961, p. 173
  66. 1 2 Thomas 1961, p. 174
  67. ↑ Beevor 2006, pp. 83
  68. 1 2 Thomas, p. 173.
  69. ↑ Thomas 1961, p. 272
  70. ↑ Mitchell 1983, p. 45
  71. ↑ Mitchell 1983, p. 46
  72. ↑ Payne p. 215
  73. ↑ The estimate of 35,000 by the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory is based on recent searches conducted with parallel excavations of mass graves in Spain. See for example Fosas Comunes - Los desaparecidos de Franco. La Guerra Civil no ha terminado, El Mundo, 7 July 2002 (Spanish)
  74. ↑ Schmidlin, 222
  75. ↑ Discorsi e Radiomessaggi di sua Santita, Primo Anno di Pontificato, Tipografia Poliglotta, Roma 1940, p. 54
  76. ↑ La Jornada - Beatifican a 498 religiosos asesinados por republicanos en la guerra civil española
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