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Vatican recognizes 95 new martyrs of Spanish Civil War
Catholic World News ^ | June 04, 2013

Posted on 06/05/2013 9:59:54 AM PDT by Petrosius

The Vatican has proclaimed 95 more martyrs of the Spanish Civil War. On June 3, with the approval of Pope Francis, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints issued four separate decrees, recognizing the martyrdom of:

In other decrees, the Congregation acknowledged the “heroic virtue” of the following, who will now be qualified for beatification if a miracle is attributed to their influence:



TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; History; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: martyrs; spain; spanishcivilwar
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To: FreedomPoster

Orwell left Spain a very disillusioned man; he realized how much propaganda they’d been fed (told of great victories where there had been no batlle at all, and the complete cover-up of disastrous defeats); he’s lucky he got out alive. People like Orwell & Hemingway must have felt like fools as they aged; they’d certainly been played for fools.


21 posted on 06/06/2013 5:09:23 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: FreedomPoster

Many of those on the left that took part in the murders of 1936 were never prosecuted for them (there was an exodus into France late in the war), and once the war was over many that had fled actually returned. There was an orderly process after the war for dealing with such things, and it involved trials and such; there was no mass retribution.

The terror carried out by civilians was almost exclusively by the left; the Falange itself was actually a small party. Once the war started I don’t count most people killed as “civilian deaths”; the left relied on civilians for its army (since most of the army & police sided with the right).


22 posted on 06/06/2013 5:14:58 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

Orwell I think did. Hemingway I’m not so sure.


23 posted on 06/06/2013 5:19:25 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda Est)
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To: Sherman Logan

“True, the generals killed some multiple of those killed by the commies. This was mostly because they won and had the leisure to slaughter their opponents without the drudgery of having to fight them.”

This is a myth which is easily spread about the Spanish Civil War because Americans were deliberately kept in the dark about it (they wouldn’t have fought in Europe in WWII if they understood what happened in Spain, and they certainly would have understood why French troops fought Americans in North Africa in 1942 if they knew what happened in Spain). If you ever have a chance to read Franco’s speech when he agreed to host American bases in Spain during the Cold War, it is very telling; the US reached out to him in the 1950s when they realized what he knew in 1936.

The best thing about the last few Popes naming these martyrs is that they can give names, dates, manner of death, etc. for each one; the commies and their useful idiots in the West have no such lists of Franco’s alledged civilian victims after the war.


24 posted on 06/06/2013 5:21:22 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Sherman Logan

See # 24; estimates are created by those with an agenda. Spain didn’t close its borders after the war like the Soviet Union; people freely came and went. If there was a list of victims of Franco, we’d be seeing it; the Church has been constantly adding names and faces to the list of the anarchists and communist during 1936, and they should be able to keep going for decades to come.


25 posted on 06/06/2013 5:24:52 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: FreedomPoster

“Orwell I think did. Hemingway I’m not so sure.”

Hemingway did the right thing when he saw what the other leftists he shilled for ravage Cuba; maybe that regret was what got to him.


26 posted on 06/06/2013 5:26:02 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2
the commies and their useful idiots in the West have no such lists of Franco’s alledged civilian victims after the war.

Nor do we have lists of the tens of millions killed by the commies. But like Generalissimo Franco, they're still dead.

27 posted on 06/06/2013 6:00:04 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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