The pope also declared 124 martyrs from the Spanish Civil War, all from the Diocese of Jaén, killed between 1936 and 1938. They included 109 diocesan priests, one religious sister, and 14 lay ...

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 ...

The Spanish Civil War raged from 1936 to 1939 and brought about the violent deaths of thousands of priests, nuns, and laypeople. Eleven have already been canonized, and well over 2,000 have been ...

Ms. Flórez Peón died on May 23 in a hospital in Gijón, Asturias. She was 105. The Spanish press, which first reported her death, called her the last remaining militiawoman of the Spanish Civil War.

8/20: CBS News 24/7 Episode 1 44:03. The world's oldest living person, Spain's Maria Branyas Morera, who was born in the United States and lived through two world wars, the Spanish Civil War, the ...

Ángeles Flórez Peón, memory keeper of Spanish Civil War, dies at 105. She aided leftist guerrillas as a teenager in the 1930s and then led political resistance from self-exile against the ...

From 1936 to 1939, the Spanish civil war divided neighbours, friends and families, and people both inside and outside Spain kept a close eye on what was happening in the country.

Commercial Shipping and Blockade Operations during the Spanish Civil War. With his newest book, Hooton, a retired defense journalist and author of a number of books in military history, including ...