On Nov. 18, the Archdiocese of Seville will celebrate the beatification of 20 martyrs of the systematic religious persecution carried out during the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War. The 20 martyrs to be ...

Pope Leo XIV on Friday declared 174 new martyrs, including 50 French Catholics who died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II and more than 100 Spanish priests killed during the Spanish ...

VATICAN CITY – Seven priests and a nun who were killed during the Spanish Civil War were beatified as martyrs Saturday at a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, praised for having refused to betray their ...

At Sunday’s Angelus, Pope Francis honored the priests, seminarian and laypeople who were murdered out of hatred for the faith. l to R: Pope Francis at the Sunday, Nov. 19, Angelus; martyrs beatified ...

The martyrs to be beatified in the Seville cathedral on Nov. 18 include 10 priests, one seminarian and nine laypeople. All of them were killed out of hatred for the faith in 1936. Archbishop José ...