Burning of convents in Spain (1931)
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Between May 10 and May 13, 1931, over one hundred convents and other religious buildings were
anticlericalists in Spain during allegedly spontaneous riots that started in Madrid and spread throughout the country.[1]
On May 10, a
Buen Retiro Park. Some members of the crowd were enraged, and the following day anti-Catholic riots and Church arson swept across Spain.[2] While some cabinet ministers in the newly founded Second Spanish Republic wanted to intervene and restore order, other cabinet ministers opposed the idea. According to the canonical narrative, Prime Minister Manuel Azaña allegedly overruled those who wished to intervene by stating, "All the convents of Spain are not worth the life of a single Republican".[3]
Legacy
Among the many priceless works of Spain's
Classicist Edward Mulholland, "It is estimated that the Jesuit Casa Profesa's library, which also burned, lost 80,000 volumes, including incunables and first editions of Spanish Golden Age authors like Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, and Quevedo."[5]
References
- ISBN 84-7030-532-8.
- ISBN 978-0-521-49388-8.
- ISSN 1957-7761.
- ^ Ante Kadič, St Francis Xavier and Marko Marulić, "The Slavic and Eastern European Journal", Spring 1961, pp. 12-18.
- ^ Marko Marulić (2024), The Davidiad, edited & translated by Edward Mulholland, Lysa, Ghent. pp. 13.