Posted on 10/30/2018 6:36:33 PM PDT by marshmallow
MADRID, Spain - The Spanish government said Tuesday that the Vatican has agreed to jointly find ways to prevent the remains of late Spanish dictator Gen. Francisco Franco from being reburied under a central Madrid cathedral after they are exhumed from a glorifying mausoleum.
Relatives of Franco want to reinter his embalmed body in a family crypt under Almudena Cathedral if the government delivers on a promise to remove it from the Valley of the Fallen, a self-aggrandizing mausoleum outside of the Spanish capital where he was interred upon his death in 1975 alongside the remains of some 34,000 fighters from both sides of the Civil War.
Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo said the Vatican’s State Secretary Pietro Parolin had agreed during a Monday meeting to “jointly find a solution that obviously can’t be the Almudena” cathedral.
The two sides agreed that while Franco’s remains need to be relocated to a place “with dignity,” the government “must guarantee in all Spanish territory that Franco is not praised.”
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Trust Pope Frances to side with the Communists.
Well, Franco kept Spain out of WWII and gave refuge to several thousand Jews fleeing the holocaust.
And he defeated a leftist revolution that intended to create a soviet Spain, and would have imposed a much worse dictatorship.
I guess the post-modern world doesn’t appreciate that kind of thing...
The following doesn't sound like "help":
Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo said the Vatican’s State Secretary Pietro Parolin had agreed during a Monday meeting to “jointly find a solution that obviously can’t be the Almudena” cathedral.
There’s a great, contemporaneous biography of Franco written by the historian Brian Crozier, FWIW.
“Opponents worry that having the general’s remains there would make Madrid a pilgrimage destination for extreme right groups and others nostalgic for Franco’s authoritarian rule.”
It sounds like the current regime wants its extreme left authoritarian rule to overwhelm President Franco’s “authoritarian” rule. Curious.
They’re keen on turning Spain back into Al-Andalus.
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