“Spain, evangelizer of half the world; hammer of heretics, light of Trent, sword of Rome, cradle of Saint Ignatius …; that is our greatness and our unity: we have no other.”
Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo
For God, For Glory and For Spain
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Movie trivia – the rousing march, which was nominated for an Academy award, from Captain From Castile was composed by Alfred Newman. He bestowed the rights to the film’s final march on the University of Southern California to use as theme music for the school’s football team. Popularly known as “Conquest”—sometimes “Trojan Conquest”.
[…] Media for Good: The Generosity of Buy Nothing Groups – Theresa Civantos Barber at Aleteia For God, For Glory, & For Spain – Donald R. McClarey, J.D., at The American […]
Repelling Islam formed the Spanish conquistadors, for good and for bad.
Someone had to do the job and Charlemagne was no longer available.
the great Spanish saints: Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, St. Ignatius of Loyola…
Their Most Catholic Majesties, Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon, unified the Kingdom of Spain. Queen Isabella sponsored Columbus on his voyages to the New World which resulted in the great Spanish Empire. ” In her last will she instructed her descendants as follows: “do not give rise to or allow the Indians [indigenous Americans] to receive any wrong in their persons and property, but rather that they be treated well and fairly, and if they have received any wrong, remedy it.”
“In 1972, the Process of Valladolid was officially submitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in the Vatican. This process was approved and Isabel was given the title “Servant of God” in March 1974.”