medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> Some modern saints: Nicephorus Tejerina and companions (blessed) (d.
> 1936) This group was the superior and brethren of the Passionist
> community near Ciudad Real in Spain. The community was raided during
> the Spanish Civil War; Nicephorus and 25 others were taken away in
> groups and shot at various times and places in the nearby region.
> They were beatified in 1989.
By the Republicans, I assume. They were also rather rabidly iconoclastic. In the
summer of 1936 in the diocese of Valencia alone, something like 6000 religious
statues (many of them medieval) were taken from their churches and destroyed.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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