1974 Sacred Heart Novitiate raid
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The August 24, 1974 military raid on the Sacred Heart Novitiate in
A Jesuit seminary, the Novitiate had become the subject of the raid because the regime's forces had mistakenly thought that a communist leader was holding a meeting there. When the 150 soldiers who conducted the raid found that the communist leader they were looking for was not at the seminary, they arrested a priest, Jose Blanco, and accused him of being the "secretary general of an allegedly anti-government organization."[5] They also arrested the head of the Jesuit order in the Philippines at the time, Benigno "Benny" Mayo, and 21 leaders of a youth group called Student Catholic Action (SCA), who were at the seminary to attend a workshop.[5][6]
The raid took place mere months after the appointment of Cardinal
See also
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