Spain’s Civil War heroes are getting one last salute. Through their grandkids. In a move that feels human and symbolic, the ...
She aided leftist guerrillas as a teenager in the 1930s and then led political resistance from self-exile against the dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco. Ángeles Flórez Peón, who left her job as a ...
Pope Leo XIV carries on his pectoral cross, among others, a relic of an Augustinian martyr bishop, Anselmo Polanco, who was executed during the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War. In addition to bearing bone ...
Miguel Ángel de Santiago Mateos does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant ...
Pope Leo XIV on Friday declared 174 new martyrs, including 50 French Catholics who died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II and more than 100 Spanish priests killed during the Spanish ...
The Spanish government has made it clear that a community of Benedictine monks is no longer welcome at the “Valley of the Fallen,” a Spanish Civil War memorial site not far from Madrid. The government ...
On Jan. 1, 1938, Bishop Polanco celebrated his last Mass at the Teruel seminary and was arrested eight days later, remaining a prisoner of the Republican forces for 13 months. As prior of the ...