Monks at Valley of the Fallen Denounce Irregularities Around Franco Exhumation

The Catholic Herald (UK) ^ | 10/25/19 | CNA

[marshmallow]

The exhumation fails to respect the inviolability of the abbey of the Valley of the Fallen as a sacred place, the prior said

The prior of the Benedictine Abbey at the Valley of the Fallen, whence the body of Francisco Franco was exhumed Thursday, has written that the exhumation fails to respect the inviolability of the abbey as a sacred place.

Fr. Santiago Cantera, prior of the Abbey of the Holy Cross, sent a message to Pope Francis; the abbot of Solesmes Abbey; and Cardinal Carlos Osoro Sierra of Madrid noting the violation.

Franco’s body was exhumed from the Basilica of the Holy Cross at the Valley of the Fallen October 24. It was re-interred in Madrid’s El Pardo cemetery.

Franco was Spain’s head of state from 1939, at the end of the Spanish Civil War when the Nationalist forces he led defeated the Republican faction, until his death in 1975. During the war, Republicans martyred thousands of clerics, religious, and laity; of these, 11 have been canonized, and 1,915 beatified.

The Valley of the Fallen is a monumental complex near Madrid which includes an abbey and basilica, the construction of which Franco ordered to honor the fallen of both sides during the civil war. The bodies of more than 30,000 victims of the war are buried in the complex.

The prior of the Abbey of the Holy Cross also filed a complaint in a Spanish court over the “non-consensual” access by the Civil Guard to the church.

“We want it to be on record that the actions of the Security Forces and the workers have been and are totally incompatible with the principle of the inviolability of places of worship and the rights of this Benedictine community; which we have made known also to the ecclesiastical hierarchy,” according to......

[Texas Eagle]

Generalissimo Francisco Franco was still dead???

[4yearlurker]

Soooo.....he's still dead then?

[elcid1970]

And so the Spanish Civil War goes on.....

It’s not all paella & tapas & sangria, folks. Spaniards have extremely long memories about internecine wars. Before the 1936-39 war it was about whose side were you on in the Carlist Wars more of than a century earlier.

Kinda like our own Civil War. Ain’t over yet, either.

[KC Burke]

Yeh, but an exhumation as punishment for beating down the communists is kind of a strange way to build up for an election.

[CharlesOConnell]

Where do you get that the American Civil War isn’t over? That’s ludicrous; even the infinitesimal number of white supremicists don’t make any special mention of the American Civil War, the Southern cause is in permanent eclipse, the only valid analogy is between Confederate President Jefferson Davis saying that “the freedom of southern manhood reposes on the institution of slavery” and contemporary Abortion Feminists saying “the freedom of American Womanhood reposes on unlimited abortion up to and including birth”. The next Civil War is already on, the Spanish Civil War is an excellent analogy for what is happening now, the end result will be that leftists will cause blood to flow in the streets, when Franco died he was found to be bankrupt, he never profited from his position, unlike leftist American politicians, if they get past the Secret Service it will be like the killing of the educational-cooperative humanitarian patron Pedro Poveda Castroverde who was an especial target of the leftists and was quickly arrested in 1936 and extrajudicially executed.