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A memorial honouring men from East Lancashire who volunteered to fight fascism in the 1930s Spanish Civil War has been unveiled in Burnley. Men from Pendle, Burnley, Rossendale and Hyndburn are ...
The Spanish Civil War, which lasted from 1936 to 1939, took the lives of up to 1 million people, and ended with the Nationalist party as the victor after capturing Madrid. What happened next?
The martyrs of the Spanish Civil War The pope also declared 124 martyrs from the Spanish Civil War, all from the Diocese of Jaén, killed between 1936 and 1938.
The Spanish government has made it clear that a community of Benedictine monks is no longer welcome at the “Valley of the Fallen,” a Spanish Civil War memorial site not far from Madrid. The ...
The figure on the proper right of the gateway is a Civil War soldier; the figure on the proper left is a Rough Rider from the Spanish-American War. The Civil War figure is dressed in uniform and ...
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.
Spain on Thursday returned paintings belonging to a former Madrid mayor that were seized for their protection during the 1936-39 Civil War and never returned under Francisco Franco's dictatorship.
Formula 1 fans have their sights set on Barcelona as they gear up for this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix.
Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the Revolutionary War.
Pope Leo XIV on Friday declared 174 new martyrs, including 50 French Catholics who died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.