Author Topic: Madrid strips Franco of honorary titles (Read 9378 times)

Clovis · « **Reply #10 on:** February 28, 2010, 01:46:26 AM »

Quote from: Catholic Samurai

Quote from: RomanCatholic1953
There is no future for Spain. That country is becoming
communist thanks to religious liberties of Vatican 2.

Dont place your bet yet. Reconquista II is just about to start.

No its not.

Clovis · « **Reply #11 on:** February 28, 2010, 02:35:09 AM »

One should also note that after his victory General Franco turned and butchered the Carlists and Falangists his right wing allies during the war too.

TheD · « **Reply #12 on:** February 28, 2010, 09:55:26 AM »

Quote from: The Spanish cινιℓ ωαr, the Soviet Union, and Communism

Their goal was to use a veil of legitimate democratic institutions to outlaw the right and to convert the state into the Soviet vision of a "people's republic" with total leftist domination, a goal which was repeatedly voiced not only in Comintern instructions but also in the public statements of the PCE (Communist Party of Spain)

The goals of the Republicans were communist.

TheD · « **Reply #13 on:** February 28, 2010, 10:00:42 AM »

Quote from: The Martyrs of Spain's cινιℓ ωαr by Redzioch, Wlodzimierz

The murder of 37 priests, brothers and seminarians by leftists in Asturias marks what some see as the beginning of the Red Terror.

TheD · « **Reply #14 on:** February 28, 2010, 10:04:41 AM »

Quote from: Statistics

May 1931: 100 church buildings are burned while firefighters refuse to extinguish the flames.

1932: 3000 Jesuits expelled. Church buildings burned with impunity in 7 cities.

1934: 33 priests murdered in the Asturias Revolution.

1936: just a day before July 18, the day the war started, there already have been 17 clergymen murdered.

From July 18 to August 1: 861 clergymen murdered in 2 weeks.

August 1936: 2077 clergymen murdered, more than 70 a day. 10 of them bishops.

Septiembre 14: 3400 clergymen murdered during the first stages of the war.

1939: end of the war; a total of 7000 clergymen and 3000 religious people murdered for practicing Catholicism.

It also should be noted that the Catholic Church beatified 498 Martyrs of the Spanish cινιℓ ωαr.