Aniceto de Castro Albarrán
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Aniceto de Castro Albarrán (Martinez (Province of Ávila) 1896 - Madrid
1981) was a Spanish priest and writer.
Having studied at the Pontifical University of Comillas he shortly after became assistant canon of Salamanca
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He won notoriety as the author of El derecho a la rebeldia (Madrid, 1934) a theological defence of armed rebellion. His book was serialised in the Carlist press, published under the usual ecclesiastical licences. A noted preacher, his services were much in demand among Salamanca's conservative circles. On 15 August 1936 he gave a talk on Nationalist radio entitled, The lawfulness of the armed uprising. He used Thomist arguments for the justification of a holy war
, arguing that the Spanish Second Republic had been 'a tyranny, an anarchy, a revolution.' " Our war is holy. Our battle cry will be that of the Crusades: God wills it. Long live Catholic Spain." In an extraordinary allocution in Salamanca Cathedral in August 1936 he declared that, "The avenging, purifying Falange
, like the Angel of Paradise, sacrifices on the altar of Spain not only the enemies of the Fatherland but also their accomplices."
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
1981) was a Spanish priest and writer.
Having studied at the Pontifical University of Comillas he shortly after became assistant canon of Salamanca
Salamanca
Salamanca is a city in western Spain, in the community of Castile and León. Because it is known for its beautiful buildings and urban environment, the Old City was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988. It is the most important university city in Spain and is known for its contributions to...
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He won notoriety as the author of El derecho a la rebeldia (Madrid, 1934) a theological defence of armed rebellion. His book was serialised in the Carlist press, published under the usual ecclesiastical licences. A noted preacher, his services were much in demand among Salamanca's conservative circles. On 15 August 1936 he gave a talk on Nationalist radio entitled, The lawfulness of the armed uprising. He used Thomist arguments for the justification of a holy war
Religious war
A religious war; Latin: bellum sacrum; is a war caused by, or justified by, religious differences. It can involve one state with an established religion against another state with a different religion or a different sect within the same religion, or a religiously motivated group attempting to...
, arguing that the Spanish Second Republic had been 'a tyranny, an anarchy, a revolution.' " Our war is holy. Our battle cry will be that of the Crusades: God wills it. Long live Catholic Spain." In an extraordinary allocution in Salamanca Cathedral in August 1936 he declared that, "The avenging, purifying Falange
Falange
The Spanish Phalanx of the Assemblies of the National Syndicalist Offensive , known simply as the Falange, is the name assigned to several political movements and parties dating from the 1930s, most particularly the original fascist movement in Spain. The word means phalanx formation in Spanish....
, like the Angel of Paradise, sacrifices on the altar of Spain not only the enemies of the Fatherland but also their accomplices."