to stop the burningof religious buildings in May 1931 Prime Minister Azaña famously retorted that the burningof "all the conventsinSpain was not worth...
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disbanded in 1840-41, with most moving to conventsin Quebec or New Orleans. The ruins of the convent remained in place for many years afterward, presenting...
century Franciscan Conventof Santa Catalina. It was irretrievably damaged during the Spanish Civil War. In 1969 it was ceded to the Spanish government for...
extension of the Spanish Inquisition into New Spain. The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was not only a political event for the Spanish, but a religious...
in some of the convents, the "observant convents", and the "mixed convents". John Soreth hoped that his reform would gradually be imposed in all the houses...
entrenching themselves inconvents and burning their own homes. The garrison of 44,000 was left with 8,000 survivors—1,500 of them ill— but the Grande...
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province of Asturias, murdered numerous policemen, clergymen, and civilians, and destroyed religious buildings including churches, convents, and part of the...
starring in several films. Charo began playing classical (Spanish-style) guitar at the age of nine, training under the famed guitarist Andrés Segovia. In 1966...
investment in housing in the years immediately prior to the Civil War. Anti-clericalism and Catholicism lived side by side in Madrid; the burningofconvents initiated...
religious congregations. In 1931, shortly after the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic, came a new burningofconvents, but much more serious was...
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hidden in a brothel to escape revolutionary violence against clergy. The film opens with scenes of working class militants demolishing and burning religious...