The anticlericalism and its consecuences in the galician diocese during the period of the II Republic (1931-1936)

Abstract

This article shows the pain and desolation of so many galician cities, towns and villages which suffered the violence of the revolutionary hand,specially during the tragic spring of ´36. Its preparation is posible thanks to the oficial opening to the researchers of the documents of the Vatican Secret Archive corresponding to the papacy of Pío XI, by the Pope Benedict XVI. These files sent by Bishops and general Vicars, depending on the circumstances, present outrages, raids and damages, fires, aggressions and inprisonments. The historical or religious sociological indicators which provide the setting for these antireligious outrages, help to comprehend and interpret the presented information and to understand that there really existed a religious persecution under the regime of the II Republic in Galicia.