These 109 Martyrs from the Spanish religious persecution in 1936, are addition to the previously beatified: 51 in Barbastro, 16 in Fernan Caballero and 7 in Terragona, with a total of 183 Claretian Missionaries glorified by the Church.
After the fall of the monarchy in 1931, the Republic was born strongly anti religious, as the chief of the Government, Mr.Manuel Azana used to express to the Congress, with his famous phrase: “Spain is no lo longer Catholic”. Furthermore, facing Spanish society with two irreconcilable sides, the left and the right wings (liberals and conservatives), until July 18, 1936 when revolution exploded, killing more than 600,000 people, between the two sides; among them 7,000 priest, religious and nuns were murdered.
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