It will be as God wishes.
Said by Blessed Carlo Erana Guruceta during the weeks prior to his murder at the hands of Spanish Republican militiamen at the onset of the Spanish Civil War.
Saint of the Day Quote: Blessed Carlo Erana Guruceta
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
That the Spanish Republicans should be extolled for their virtue by so many, this fact alone bears testament to the enduring ignorance of the majority of the American people.
J. Ronald Parrish, I never liked Hemingway’s For Whom The Bells Toll, in print or film. It was a story about an American who joins the Spanish Republican Guerrillas.
The Lincoln Battalion was about 3,000 men who volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War. About one third of them died.
Franco stopped communism and allowed Nato clear passage in the Mediterranean.
Murdering people is a crime against God.
The Spanish revolt was unique in that it flourished as a hatred for God. Most of the other revolutions, including Lenin/Stalin were directed at people to be controlled by the state. They neither believed in God nor much cared. Stalin opened the churches in 1941 simply to unite people against the German invasion. Persecution resumed after the end of the war.
The leftists in pre Civil War Spain made it a practice to attack the Church because it was an easy target that was aligned with the monarchy and after Alfonso XIII abandonment of the throne the conservative Republicans. After all what could be easier for the mob, largely anarchist, to attack than women in religious orders and priests and brothers. The anarchists were romanticized by the American intelligentsia not understanding they would be among the first to be butchered should the anarchist prevail.