Father of 11 martyred in Spanish Civil War to be beatified aleteia.org
Pope Francis has authorized the recognition of the martyrdom of a priest and a layman killed “in hatred of the faith” in 1936 in the context of the Spanish War.
Father Gaetano Clausella Ballvé, born in 1863 in Sabadell, was chaplain to a retirement home. He was shot in the back by militiamen in the early hours of August 15, 1936, 10 days after his 73rd birthday.
Layman and father of 11, Antonio Tort Reixachs, born in Barcelona in 1895, was attacked by armed men for harboring religious in his home. On the night of December 3 to 4, 1936, his house was ransacked and sacred images destroyed. He was tortured in a convent converted into a prison, then shot dead near the Montcada cemetery…
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