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Historical Notes
What did Father Josemaria say about the reprisals carried out by Franco’s followers during the Spanish Civil War?
All of the people who talked to hime, stress that his approach was a very unusual one at the time. Whenever the subject of war and war-related violence and atrocities came up, he always talked about forgiveness, and advised people to avoid revenge and seek reconciliation instead.
In April 1938 Father Josemaria noted down a conversation he had had with a young officer he had met on a train to Andalusia. “A second lieutenant, who had suffered terribly as to his family and his property at the hands of the Reds, was talking about the revenge he was planning to take. I told him that I had suffered like him, and my family and possessions too, but that what I desire is for the Reds to live and be converted. There was a struggle in his noble soul between those Christian words, and his violent feelings. He reacted well.”
Francesco Angelicchio, one of the first Italians to join Opus Dei, wrote of Father Josemaria: “I always heard him express very clear, severe condemnation of totalitarian, tyrannical regimes which killed freedom, no matter what colour they were” (quoted in P. Urbano, El Hombre de Villa Tevere, 1995, chapter 7).
In April 1938 Father Josemaria noted down a conversation he had had with a young officer he had met on a train to Andalusia. “A second lieutenant, who had suffered terribly as to his family and his property at the hands of the Reds, was talking about the revenge he was planning to take. I told him that I had suffered like him, and my family and possessions too, but that what I desire is for the Reds to live and be converted. There was a struggle in his noble soul between those Christian words, and his violent feelings. He reacted well.”
Francesco Angelicchio, one of the first Italians to join Opus Dei, wrote of Father Josemaria: “I always heard him express very clear, severe condemnation of totalitarian, tyrannical regimes which killed freedom, no matter what colour they were” (quoted in P. Urbano, El Hombre de Villa Tevere, 1995, chapter 7).
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- Historical Notes Introduction
- Was the Escriva family well off or short of money?
- What sort of childhood did Josemaria Escriva have?
- Why did Josemaria’s father’s business fail?
- If Opus Dei had no members till the 1930s, why did Josemaria Escriva say it was founded in 1928?
- What difficulties did Opus Dei meet with at the start?
- What kind of people did Father Josemaria Escriva work with in Opus Dei’s early years?
- What was Father Josemaria Escriva’s attitude towards the Second Spanish Republic?
- What was Father Josemaria Escriva’s reaction to the attempted military coup of July 18, 1936?
- Where did the first Opus Dei members stand politically?
- Is it true that another priest was killed by mistake for Father Josemaria Escriva?
- Why did Father Josemaria go into hiding?
- How did Father Josemaria exercise his priesthood during the Spanish Civil War?
- How and why did Father Josemaria decide to escape across the Pyrenees Mountains?
- Why Burgos?
- Which side were Opus Dei members on in the Spanish Civil War?
- What did Father Josemaria think of Franco and his activities during the Spanish Civil War?
- What contact did Father Josemaria have with the Franco regime?
- What did Father Josemaria say about the reprisals carried out by Franco’s followers during the Spanish Civil War?
- What did Father Josemaria think of Hitler and the Nazis?
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