The Last Crusade: Spain 1936
"Crusade" means a war for the sake of the Cross, a war to protect Christian people from persecution and death on account of their faith in Jesus Christ. Everyone has heard of the crusades of the Middle Ages. But few know of the crusade in our time, which living men still remember, fought for this same purpose only sixty years ago in Spain. In just six months of the year 1936, thirteen bishops and nearly seven thousand priests, seminarians, monks, and nuns were martyred in Spain by enemies of Christianity. It was the greatest clerical bloodletting in so short a span of time since the persecutions on the Church by the ancient Roman emperors. Already Pope John Paul II has beatified some two hundred of these martyrs. Tens of thousands of churches, chapels, and shrines in Spain were pillaged or destroyed. In response, faithful Spanish Catholics proclaimed a crusade. Against all odds the crusaders triumphed, and the Church and the Faith in Spain were saved. This is the story of that crusade, now honored in no other book in print in the English language. Most people who know of the Spanish Civil War do not understand why it was fought or how it was really won. This book will tell you. There is no story like it in the history of the twentieth century.
CATHOLIC CHURCH_SPAINSPAIN_HISTORY_CIVIL WAR, 1936-1939PERSECUTION
RELEASED1996
PUBLISHERChristendom Press
LENGTH240
LANGUAGEEN
**Warren Hasty Carroll** received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. After his conversion to the Catholic Church in 1968, he dedicated his life to spreading the Catholic view of history through teaching and writing. He founded Christendom College in 1977 and served as its president until 1985. He was chairman of the History Department from 1977 until 2002. From 1975 until his death in 2011, he worked on a six-volume history of Christendom: *The Founding of Christendom* (1985), *The Building of Christendom* (1987), *The Glory of Christendom* (1993), *The Cleaving of Christendom* (2000), *The Revolution against Christendom* (2005), and *The Crisis of Christendom* (2013). Dr. Carroll was also the author of numerous other articles and books, including: *Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness*; *The Guillotine and the Cross*; *Isabel of Spain: The Catholic Queen*; *The Last Crusade*; and *The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution*. *Taken from the back cover of* The Crisis of Christendom.
The Last Crusade: Spain 1936
"Crusade" means a war for the sake of the Cross, a war to protect Christian people from persecution and death on account of their faith in Jesus Christ. Everyone has heard of the crusades of the Middle Ages. But few know of the crusade in our time, which living men still remember, fought for this same purpose only sixty years ago in Spain. In just six months of the year 1936, thirteen bishops and nearly seven thousand priests, seminarians, monks, and nuns were martyred in Spain by enemies of Christianity. It was the greatest clerical bloodletting in so short a span of time since the persecutions on the Church by the ancient Roman emperors. Already Pope John Paul II has beatified some two hundred of these martyrs. Tens of thousands of churches, chapels, and shrines in Spain were pillaged or destroyed. In response, faithful Spanish Catholics proclaimed a crusade. Against all odds the crusaders triumphed, and the Church and the Faith in Spain were saved. This is the story of that crusade, now honored in no other book in print in the English language. Most people who know of the Spanish Civil War do not understand why it was fought or how it was really won. This book will tell you. There is no story like it in the history of the twentieth century.
CATHOLIC CHURCH_SPAINSPAIN_HISTORY_CIVIL WAR, 1936-1939PERSECUTION
RELEASED1996
PUBLISHERChristendom Press
LENGTH240
LANGUAGEEN
**Warren Hasty Carroll** received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. After his conversion to the Catholic Church in 1968, he dedicated his life to spreading the Catholic view of history through teaching and writing. He founded Christendom College in 1977 and served as its president until 1985. He was chairman of the History Department from 1977 until 2002. From 1975 until his death in 2011, he worked on a six-volume history of Christendom: *The Founding of Christendom* (1985), *The Building of Christendom* (1987), *The Glory of Christendom* (1993), *The Cleaving of Christendom* (2000), *The Revolution against Christendom* (2005), and *The Crisis of Christendom* (2013). Dr. Carroll was also the author of numerous other articles and books, including: *Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness*; *The Guillotine and the Cross*; *Isabel of Spain: The Catholic Queen*; *The Last Crusade*; and *The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution*. *Taken from the back cover of* The Crisis of Christendom.
