Sevilla, Spain. The month of August 2011 celebrates the 75th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of more than 260 Claretian Missionaries at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War (1936)
Barbastro, Cervera, Fernán Caballero, are names that echo in the congregational landscape. Some of these martyrs have now been officially recognized as such by ecclesiastical authorities and the cause of others is in process.

30th Anniversary of the Beatification of the Martyrs of Barbastro
Barbastro, Spain. The events of that October 25 are still very much alive in the memory of many people, but thirty years have passed since 1992. Rome seemed to dress up to welcome the beatification of the fifty-one missionary martyrs of Barbastro (Huesca - Spain), who...