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 ...

The Spanish Civil War tore a nation apart between 1936 and 1939, becoming a brutal prelude to World War II. This video explores the deep political and social divisions that sparked the conflict, the ...

A reminder of Spain’s past resurfaced dramatically off the coast of Denia on Wednesday, January 14, after a Civil War explosive device was discovered underwater, forcing the temporary evacuation ...

Voices on social media had raised doubts about whether the device detonated yesterday off Les Albaranes beach in Denia was ...

For the anarchists, the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War signifed the long-awaited realization of a worldwide revolution. In this regard, the Russian-Lithuanian-American-English anarchist and ...

London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2025. Pp. viii, 509. Maps, tables, notes, index. $175.00 / £130.00. ISBN:1350230405 A Valuable Reference Guide to the Spanish Civil War Fought in the final years of ...

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 ...

Artist Luis Quintanilla sketches a model for his mural at the University of Missouri-Kanas City. The artwork, "Don Quixote in the Modern World," was completed in 1940. Artist Luis Quintanilla fled the ...

On 22 June 2019, Christy Moore unveiled a plaque to Frank Conroy to commemorate the 26-year-old Kilcullen man who was killed ...

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 ...