National Catholic Register

Pope Leo XIV’s Connection to Spanish Civil War Martyrs, Valley of the Fallen

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 ...
National Catholic Register

Pope Leo XIV Declares 174 New Martyrs From Nazi Camps and Spanish Civil War

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 Washington Post

Ángeles Flórez Peón, memory keeper of Spanish Civil War, dies at 105

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 ...
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What It Was Like to Be a Civil War Prisoner

Camp Sumter, also known as Andersonville prison, housed 45,000 captured Union soldiers during the Civil War. Conditions at Andersonville were so horrific that 13,000 soldiers perished, many from ...
AOL

Students to help make Spanish Civil War memorial

An artist planning a monument to volunteers who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War has enlisted the creative support of college students and wants to involve the local community. Rob ...