Vincentiana Volume 43 Number 1 Vol. 43, No. 1 Article 10 1-1999 IV. Spanish Martyrs: 1. Martyrs of the Congregation of the Mission J. M. Roman Follow this and additional works at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/vincentiana Part of the Catholic Studies Commons, Comparative Methodologies and Theories Commons, History of Christianity Commons, Liturgy and Worship Commons, and the Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons Recommended Citation Roman, J. M. (1999) "IV. Spanish Martyrs: 1. Martyrs of the Congregation of the Mission," Vincentiana: Vol. 43 : No. 1 , Article 10. Available at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/vincentiana/vol43/iss1/10 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Vincentian Journals and Publications at Via Sapientiae. It has been accepted for inclusion in Vincentiana by an authorized editor of Via Sapientiae. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. IV. Spanish Martyrs Introduction The Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, as well as that which led up to it by way of the Asturias' revolution in October of 1934, are historical events which are extremely complex in all their intermingling factors: social, political, military, economical and, of course, religious. However, whatever the historical judgment of this convulsive epoch might be in its definitive form, there is no doubt that in the midst of a very warlike and revolutionary situation, a true religious persecution did occur as well. The behavior of the governing republican leftist leaders took on a clearly antireligious bent from the very beginning. The separation of Church and state proclaimed by the constitution meant much more than a simple official laicization.