2023-11-18 02:00:00
By Walter Sánchez Silva
November 18, 2023 / 07:50 AM
Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, presided this Saturday, November 18, at the beatification Mass of 20 martyrs murdered out of hatred for the faith during the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, between the months of July and August. of 1936.
The new blessed are 10 priests, 1 seminarian and 9 lay people (among them, a woman). According to the Archdiocese of Seville, they were murdered “after being detained and without prior trial, in the climate of persecution of anyone who professed to be a member of the Catholic Church.”
The new beatified are: Fr Manuel Gonzalez-Serna Rodriguez, Maria Dolores Nephew; Fr. Francis of Assisi Arias Rivas, Fr. John Maria Coca Saavedra, Fr. Jose Maria Rojas, Fr.
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