Paracuellos - 75th anniversary

Paracuellos - 75th anniversary

[On the 70th anniversary of the Passion of Spain, in 2006, our special series included as one of its most relevants texts the list of the Martyrs of Paracuellos de Jarama. Since then, several others have been beatified - and 22 will be beatified on December 17. Blogger Francisco Cigüeña, who was present there on Sunday- with only a few hundred others - rightly calls Paracuellos the largest reliquary in the world. These are our martyrs, this is our glorious Church: dear Martyrs of Paracuellos, you who are so dear to Almighty God, pray for Holy Mother Church, pray for Spain! Queen of Martyrs, intercede for us!]

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6...aracuellos.jpgExactly 75 years ago, on November 7 and November 8 (and from November 28 to November 30), 1936, the largest isolated massacre of Catholics in modern times happened in the outskirts of Madrid, near the foot of a hill called Cerro San Miguel (Saint Michael Hill), in Paracuellos de Jarama.

Many thousands of Catholics were martyred by the forces which defended the Spanish Republic (including Communists, Socialists, and Anarchists), in the most brutal and despicable ways, before and especially during the nearly three years of the Spanish Civil War -- yet no place was as soaked with the blood of martyrs in so short a time as the fields of Paracuellos.

Madrid would only fall in the hands of the Nationalists at the end of the war. Yet, in late October 1936, it seemed to the Republican government and its allies that the Capital was about to fall. The government would be transferred to Valencia, and the thousands upon thousands of prisoners (many of whom were not political partisans, but simply Catholic priests, religious, and lay faithful) kept in the prisons and detention centers throughout the city had to be "discarded"...
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By trains and trucks they went, hundreds and hundreds for three days, beginning on November 6. When the prisoners arrived at Paracuellos, they had to dig up their mass graves, and were shot by the leftist squadrons, dozens at a time. Many were also buried alive.

The flow of prisoners to Paracuellos was interrupted on November 8, when the advance of the Nationalist forces seemed under control, and due to the intervention of many foreign diplomats.

On November 28-30, thousands more were murdered at Paracuellos, including almost all the Augustinian friars of the great Royal Monastery of Saint Lawrence of El Escorial. Some historians estimate that the total number of people murdered in Paracuellos in November 1936 may have reached almost 5,000, of whom an incalculable number killed solely for their Faith.

We publish below the names of some of the martyrs of Paracuellos, priests and religious brothers [identified as (br)]. Many more unidentified priests and religious, as well as non-religious laymen, were also martyred in that sanctified place. Some have been beatified; the list was obtained from several sources and is incomplete. We honor with their names all Martyrs of Paracuellos, known and unknown (the second part of the list is dedicated to the Martyrs from the Monastery of El Escorial). Their names include the sounds of all "Spains", from Catalonia to Galicia, from the Basque Country to Andalusia, all martyred in the tablelands of old Castile.

May the Martyrs of Paracuellos never be forgotten, as well as the lessons learned from days of terrible persecution under an Atheist tyranny.

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Martyrs of Paracuellos, pray for us!

Martyrs of November 7-8 and November 28-30, 1936

Adalberto Juan (Brother of the Christian Schools)
Adradas Gonzalo, Juan Jesús (Blessed)
Alcalde Alcalde, Juan (br) (Blessed)
Alcalde González, Benito
Alcalde Negredo, Pedro María (br) (Blessed)
Alcobendas Merino, Severino
Alfonso, José (br)
Alfonso Beltrán (Brother of the Christian Schools)
Alonso Cadierno, Pedro Nolasco
Álvarez Melcón, Bernardino
Álvarez Rego, Manuel
Arnaiz Álvarez, Atanasio
Baldajos Pérez, Juan (br)
Basilio Julián (Brother of the Christian Schools)
Bautista Jiménez, Eduardo (br) (Blessed)
Bernalte Calzado, Pedro Alcántara (br) (Blessed)
Blanco, Vicente
Bocos, Ángel (br)
Caballero, Juan José (subdeacon)
Carmona, Isabelino
Daciano (Brother of the Christian Schools)
Delgado Pérez, José (br)
Delgado Vílchez, Hilario (br) (Blessed)
Díez Fernández, Jenaro
Díez Sahún, Clemente (br) (Blessed)
Donoso Murillo, Arturo (br) (Blessed)
Escribano Herranz, Mariano
Esteban, Francico
Esteban, Gregorio
Eufrasio María (Brother of the Christian Schools)
Fanjul Acebal, Alfonso
Feijoo, Zacarías
Fernández González, Justo (br)
Floriano Félix (Brother of the Christian Schools)
Franco Prieto, Emilio
García González, Senén
García Molina, Diego de Cádiz (br) (Blessed)
García Pérez, José (novice)
Garzón González, Anastasio
Gesta de Piquer, Jesús (br) (Blessed)
Gil Arribas, Valentín
Gil, Justo (deacon)
Gomara, Vidal Luis
Gómez Lucas, Daniel (br)
González Bustos, Maximino
Guerra, José (br)
Iglesias Suárez, Ramón
Ismael Ricardo (Brother of the Christian Schools)
Juan Pablo (Brother of the Christian Schools)
Juanes Santos, Justo
Julián Alberto (Brother of the Christian Schools)
Llop Gayá, Guillermo (br) (Blessed)
López Arroba, Rogelio
Luis Victorio (Brother of the Christian Schools)
Marcelino Rebollar, Julián (br)
Marco, Alberto
Martín Gago, Victorio
Martín Gómez, Manuel
Martín López, Francisco José
Martínez Gil-Leonis, Antonio (br) (Blessed)
Martínez Izquierdo, Isidoro (br) (Blessed)
Martínez Vélez, Dámaso
Martínez y Martínez, José
Mata Pérez, Anastasio (br)
Meléndez Sánchez, Martiniano (br) (Blessed)
Mendivelzúa, Juan
Mendoza Sabada, Jacinto
Menes Álvarez, Antonio
Monterroso García, Crescencio
Mora Velasco, José (Blessed)
Morquillas Fernández, Francisco
Múgica Goiburu, Lázaro (br) (Blessed)
Muñiz, Félix
Nogueira Guitián, Manuel (Carlos de los Santísimos Sacramentos)
Pablo de la Cruz (Brother of the Christian Schools)
Pajares García, Samuel
Peña, Vicente
Peque Iglesias, José (br)
Pérez Buenavista, Marcos (br)
Pérez Carrascal, Laureano
Pérez Díez, Gabriel (Manuel del Rosario)
Pérez Nanclares, Florencio (br)
Plazaola Artola, Julián (br) (Blessed)
Poveda Daries, Luis
Prado, Eleuterio (br)
Prieto Fuentes, José (br)
Reguero, Victoriano
Renuncio Toribio, Vicente
Riaño Herrero, Serviliano (br)
Rodrigo Fierro, Sabino
Rodríguez Alonso, Avelino
Rodríguez Crespo, Agustín
Rodríguez Fernández, Vicente
Rodríguez Peña, José María
Rodríguez, Clemente (br)
Rodríguez, Publio (br)
Rueda Meijías, Miguel (br) (Blessed)
Ruiz Cuesta, José (postulant) (Blessed)
Ruiz Ruiz, Leonardo
Ruiz Valtierra, Luciano (br)
Sáenz Gastón, Romualdo
Salvador del Río, Nicéforo (br) (Blessed)
Sánchez Fernández, Marcelino (br)
Sanz Domínguez, Manuel (br)
Sastre Corporales, Ángel (novice) (Blessed)
Sedano Sedano, Enrique
Sinfronio (Brother of the Christian Schools)
Soria Castresana, Juan
Touceda Fernández, Román (br) (Blessed)
Turrado Crespo, Eleuterio
Valiente, José María (br)
Vega Riaño, José
Villarroel Villarroel, Balbino
Zubillaga Echarri, Joaquín
Abia Melendro, Luis (br)
Alonso López, Ramiro (br)
Arconada Merino, Dámaso
Calle Franco, Bernardino (br)
Carvajal Pereda, Pedro J. (br)
Cerezal Calvo, Miguel
Cuesta Villalba, Víctor (br)
Dalmau Regas, José M. (br)
Diez Fernández, Nemesio (br)
Espeso Cuevas, Matías
Fariña Castro, José Agustín
Fincias, Julio María (br)
Fuentes Puebla, Francisco (br)
Gando Uña, José (br)
García Ferrero, Joaquín
García de la Fuente, Arturo
García Fernández, Nemesio (br)
García Suárez, Esteban
Garnelo Alvarez, Benito
Gil Leal, Gerardo
Guerrero Prieto, Marcos (br)
Iturrarán Laucirica, Miguel (br)
Largo Manrique, Jesús
López Piteira, José (br)
Malunbres Francés, Constantino
Marcos del Río, Francisco
Marcos Reguero, Ricardo (br)
Marcos Rodríguez, Julio (br)
Martín Mata, Román (br)
Martínez Antuña, Melchor
Martínez Ramos, Pedro
Mediavilla Campos, Isidro (br)
Merino Merino, Heliodoro
Monedero Fernández, Juan
Noriega González, José (br)
Pascual Mata, Gerardo (br)
Pérez García, José Antonio (br)
Renedo Martin, Agustín
Revilla Rico, Mariano
Rodríguez Gutiérrez, Conrado
Rodríguez González, Benito
Sánchez Sánchez, Juan
Sánchez López, Macario (br)
Sánchez López, Tomás (br)
Simón Ferrero, Pedro (br)
Suárez Valdés, Luis
Terceño Vicente, Dionisio (br)
Valle García, Máximo (br)
Varga Delgado, Pedro de la
Velásco Velásco, Benito
Zarco Cuevas, Julián

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