Mayor in Spain Removes Cross from Convent, Throws it in Dump

Crux ^ | 1/25/21 | Ines San Martin

[marshmallow]

ROSARIO, Argentina — The mayor of a small town in southern Spain forcibly removed a cross from the doors of a convent. The crucifix was then found in a garbage dump.

The events took place last week in the town of Aguilar de la Frontera, in the Diocese of Cordoba, in the Andalusia region in southern Spain.

The cross was located at the entrance of the church that belongs to the adjoining convent of the Discalced Carmelites, and had been there since 1939. It was erected to honor the Nationalist victims of Spain’s civil war, although the plaque noting this had long been removed in respect of all the victims of Nationalist leader General Francisco Franco.

The mayor of the town, Carmen Flores, from the pro-communist party Izquierda Unida, had the cross removed on Wednesday despite the fact it was in a part of the convent that was declared a National Historic Monument in 1983. The designation means that the exterior of the convent cannot be modified.

Sister Maravillas de Jesus, the mother superior of the Discalced Carmelites of Aguilar de la Frontera, told Spanish newspaper ABC that “we are dismayed and very hurt by the affront made to God Our Lord, for the sacrilege made to our Sacred Sign par excellence, which is the Holy Cross.”

“Everything we have lived is proof of the ingratitude of the children of God, who respond to him in this way when He fills us with joy and love every day,” she said.

“But we have prayed every day: we do not understand why these things happen,” said Maravillas de Jesus.

Today, there are five cloistered nuns in the convent, all coming from Peru.

Flores made the decision to remove the cross unilaterally, and without the approval of Spain’s registry of.......

[Jacob Kell]

Republicans, not Nationalists. The latter were Franco’s people.