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ANTONI CAPDEVILA\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\nWhen the revolution of July 1936 broke out, our Brother belonged to the community of La\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Selva<\/span><\/span>\u00a0del Camp. His first concern was to take the elderly and sick Brother Ramon Garces to the Sanatorium run by the Sisters in Reus. From there, on July 24th, he travelled by train to Borges\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Blanques<\/span><\/span>, walking the final 14 kilometres to\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Mollerosa<\/span><\/span>, near\u00a0<\/span><\/span>L\u00e9rida<\/span><\/span>. The train stopped longer than necessary in\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Vimbod\u00ed<\/span><\/span>\u00a0to change engines, and Antoni got out of the carriage to walk along the platform<\/span><\/span>. Then\u00a0<\/span><\/span>someone of malicious intent suspected something strange and he was arrested. They marched him along the<\/span><\/span>\u00a0streets to the Police station<\/span><\/span>\u00a0and, at about noon, they took him along the road to the place call<\/span><\/span>ed the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Puntarr\u00f3<\/span><\/span>, where he was killed.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Before dying, drawing strength from the bottom of his missionary soul, he shouted:<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u201cLong live Christ the King!\u201d<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nJAUME MIR\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\nA few days after the death of Brother Antoni\u00a0Capdevila, specifically on July 29th, Fr\u00a0Jaume\u00a0Mir was to suffer the same fate.\u00a0The revolution caught up with him when he was directing a Retreat with the Carmelite Sisters of Charity in Francol\u00ed Esplugues. With the dissolution of the Religious Community on July 21st, he took refuge with them in the Chaplain’s house.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe martyrdom of Fr\u00a0Jaume\u00a0seems to bear the stamp of a vile betrayal. Wanting to move to Tarragona, he went to the Police station for the appropriate pass. He got it, but the people who gave it to him asked for it back the next day. He requested another, and was told there was no need for one, because they themselves were going with him to Montblanc Police station.\u00a0The militiamen drove him to Montblanc to put him on the train. The truth is that, the same day, on the 29th<\/span>\u00a0in the afternoon, his body was laid to rest in cemetery of Tarragona.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nSEBASTI\u00c1 BALSELLS\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\nThe revolution in July caught Brother\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Sebastian in La\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Selva<\/span><\/span>\u00a0del Camp.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>He decided to take refuge in his birthplace in the village of La\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Fuliola<\/span><\/span>. On August 15<\/span><\/span>th, at night<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>he\u00a0<\/span><\/span>heard eight menacing shouts at the door, calling for\u00a0<\/span><\/span>him<\/span><\/span>; he<\/span><\/span>\u00a0was thrust into a car which took him to<\/span><\/span>\u00a0the Police station of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>T\u00e1rrega<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The car continued along the road<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The car stopped, the militiamen tied our Brother to a tree trunk and fired eight shots.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nBROTHERS ANDREU FEL\u00cdU AND PAU CASTELL\u00c1,<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\nBoth were born in the same town, both shared the same religious life in the Claretian Congregation, both spent their best years working on the tough Mission of Equatorial Guinea; together they peacefully passed their old age in the same community.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nSons of La\u00a0Selva\u00a0del Camp, when the revolutionaries dissolved their Community, both went to their own families, staying there for three months until the Police authorities of Reus decided to upset the quiet routines of their neighbouring town and made up the list of those who should be shot.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThey were\u00a0arrested without further ado on October 26th<\/span>. They were taken to La\u00a0Riera\u00a0de la\u00a0Cuadra, on the municipal boundary of Reus, to be shot.\u00a0These two most exemplary Missionaries died for the same cause: for being Religious!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nBR<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0ANTONI VILAMASSANA AND FR<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0FREDERIC VILA<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\nThroughout Catalonia, the floating prison set up on the cargo boat Cabo\u00a0Cullera\u00a0was infamous, but it was soon moved to another more spacious ship, the Rio Segre, also a cargo boat weighing in at 5,000 tons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nIt doesn\u2019t take much imagination to guess what life was like there. Amongst the prisoners there were many priests and religious, and lay people\u00a0who\u00a0were distinguished Catholics,\u00a0who passed the time in their own way on deck,\u00a0despite close monitoring from the red militiamen, who couldn\u2019t stand seeing rosary beads, even though they were made\u00a0\u200b\u200bfrom knotted string!, nor did they tolerate seeing lips that moved in prayer … The way of life was strict: \u201cNo lips or fingers, or knots!\u201d …\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nSome ten Claretians passed through this dreadful prison, but only two of them would leave to meet their deaths: Br. Antoni\u00a0Vilamassana\u00a0and Fr.\u00a0Frederic Vila.<\/p>\n
CON<\/span><\/span>CLUSION<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\nThese Claretian Martyrs were beatified in Tarragona on October 13rd, 2013. All of them, according\u00a0to the motto of the feast of the beatification, were \u00abstrong and courageous witnesses of faith\u00bb. They died forgiving and thus they became martyrs of Christ who, on the Cross, forgave his persecutors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BLESSED MARTYRS OF TARRAGONA The seven Claretian martyrs of Tarragona came from two communities very close to each other: Tarragona and La\u00a0Selva\u00a0del Camp. Their martyrdoms took place separately, at different times and places. ANTONI CAPDEVILA\u00a0 When the revolution of July 1936 broke out, our Brother belonged to the community of La\u00a0Selva\u00a0del Camp. His first …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3294,"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3084\/revisions\/3294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
JAUME MIR\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\nA few days after the death of Brother Antoni\u00a0Capdevila, specifically on July 29th, Fr\u00a0Jaume\u00a0Mir was to suffer the same fate.\u00a0The revolution caught up with him when he was directing a Retreat with the Carmelite Sisters of Charity in Francol\u00ed Esplugues. With the dissolution of the Religious Community on July 21st, he took refuge with them in the Chaplain’s house.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe martyrdom of Fr\u00a0Jaume\u00a0seems to bear the stamp of a vile betrayal. Wanting to move to Tarragona, he went to the Police station for the appropriate pass. He got it, but the people who gave it to him asked for it back the next day. He requested another, and was told there was no need for one, because they themselves were going with him to Montblanc Police station.\u00a0The militiamen drove him to Montblanc to put him on the train. The truth is that, the same day, on the 29th<\/span>\u00a0in the afternoon, his body was laid to rest in cemetery of Tarragona.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nSEBASTI\u00c1 BALSELLS\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\nThe revolution in July caught Brother\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Sebastian in La\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Selva<\/span><\/span>\u00a0del Camp.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>He decided to take refuge in his birthplace in the village of La\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Fuliola<\/span><\/span>. On August 15<\/span><\/span>th, at night<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>he\u00a0<\/span><\/span>heard eight menacing shouts at the door, calling for\u00a0<\/span><\/span>him<\/span><\/span>; he<\/span><\/span>\u00a0was thrust into a car which took him to<\/span><\/span>\u00a0the Police station of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>T\u00e1rrega<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The car continued along the road<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The car stopped, the militiamen tied our Brother to a tree trunk and fired eight shots.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nBROTHERS ANDREU FEL\u00cdU AND PAU CASTELL\u00c1,<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\nBoth were born in the same town, both shared the same religious life in the Claretian Congregation, both spent their best years working on the tough Mission of Equatorial Guinea; together they peacefully passed their old age in the same community.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nSons of La\u00a0Selva\u00a0del Camp, when the revolutionaries dissolved their Community, both went to their own families, staying there for three months until the Police authorities of Reus decided to upset the quiet routines of their neighbouring town and made up the list of those who should be shot.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThey were\u00a0arrested without further ado on October 26th<\/span>. They were taken to La\u00a0Riera\u00a0de la\u00a0Cuadra, on the municipal boundary of Reus, to be shot.\u00a0These two most exemplary Missionaries died for the same cause: for being Religious!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nBR<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0ANTONI VILAMASSANA AND FR<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0FREDERIC VILA<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\nThroughout Catalonia, the floating prison set up on the cargo boat Cabo\u00a0Cullera\u00a0was infamous, but it was soon moved to another more spacious ship, the Rio Segre, also a cargo boat weighing in at 5,000 tons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nIt doesn\u2019t take much imagination to guess what life was like there. Amongst the prisoners there were many priests and religious, and lay people\u00a0who\u00a0were distinguished Catholics,\u00a0who passed the time in their own way on deck,\u00a0despite close monitoring from the red militiamen, who couldn\u2019t stand seeing rosary beads, even though they were made\u00a0\u200b\u200bfrom knotted string!, nor did they tolerate seeing lips that moved in prayer … The way of life was strict: \u201cNo lips or fingers, or knots!\u201d …\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nSome ten Claretians passed through this dreadful prison, but only two of them would leave to meet their deaths: Br. Antoni\u00a0Vilamassana\u00a0and Fr.\u00a0Frederic Vila.<\/p>\n
CON<\/span><\/span>CLUSION<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\nThese Claretian Martyrs were beatified in Tarragona on October 13rd, 2013. All of them, according\u00a0to the motto of the feast of the beatification, were \u00abstrong and courageous witnesses of faith\u00bb. They died forgiving and thus they became martyrs of Christ who, on the Cross, forgave his persecutors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BLESSED MARTYRS OF TARRAGONA The seven Claretian martyrs of Tarragona came from two communities very close to each other: Tarragona and La\u00a0Selva\u00a0del Camp. Their martyrdoms took place separately, at different times and places. ANTONI CAPDEVILA\u00a0 When the revolution of July 1936 broke out, our Brother belonged to the community of La\u00a0Selva\u00a0del Camp. His first …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3294,"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3084\/revisions\/3294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The martyrdom of Fr\u00a0Jaume\u00a0seems to bear the stamp of a vile betrayal. Wanting to move to Tarragona, he went to the Police station for the appropriate pass. He got it, but the people who gave it to him asked for it back the next day. He requested another, and was told there was no need for one, because they themselves were going with him to Montblanc Police station.\u00a0The militiamen drove him to Montblanc to put him on the train. The truth is that, the same day, on the 29th<\/span>\u00a0in the afternoon, his body was laid to rest in cemetery of Tarragona.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The revolution in July caught Brother\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Sebastian in La\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Selva<\/span><\/span>\u00a0del Camp.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>He decided to take refuge in his birthplace in the village of La\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Fuliola<\/span><\/span>. On August 15<\/span><\/span>th, at night<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>he\u00a0<\/span><\/span>heard eight menacing shouts at the door, calling for\u00a0<\/span><\/span>him<\/span><\/span>; he<\/span><\/span>\u00a0was thrust into a car which took him to<\/span><\/span>\u00a0the Police station of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>T\u00e1rrega<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The car continued along the road<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The car stopped, the militiamen tied our Brother to a tree trunk and fired eight shots.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Both were born in the same town, both shared the same religious life in the Claretian Congregation, both spent their best years working on the tough Mission of Equatorial Guinea; together they peacefully passed their old age in the same community.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sons of La\u00a0Selva\u00a0del Camp, when the revolutionaries dissolved their Community, both went to their own families, staying there for three months until the Police authorities of Reus decided to upset the quiet routines of their neighbouring town and made up the list of those who should be shot.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n They were\u00a0arrested without further ado on October 26th<\/span>. They were taken to La\u00a0Riera\u00a0de la\u00a0Cuadra, on the municipal boundary of Reus, to be shot.\u00a0These two most exemplary Missionaries died for the same cause: for being Religious!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Throughout Catalonia, the floating prison set up on the cargo boat Cabo\u00a0Cullera\u00a0was infamous, but it was soon moved to another more spacious ship, the Rio Segre, also a cargo boat weighing in at 5,000 tons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t take much imagination to guess what life was like there. Amongst the prisoners there were many priests and religious, and lay people\u00a0who\u00a0were distinguished Catholics,\u00a0who passed the time in their own way on deck,\u00a0despite close monitoring from the red militiamen, who couldn\u2019t stand seeing rosary beads, even though they were made\u00a0\u200b\u200bfrom knotted string!, nor did they tolerate seeing lips that moved in prayer … The way of life was strict: \u201cNo lips or fingers, or knots!\u201d …\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Some ten Claretians passed through this dreadful prison, but only two of them would leave to meet their deaths: Br. Antoni\u00a0Vilamassana\u00a0and Fr.\u00a0Frederic Vila.<\/p>\n These Claretian Martyrs were beatified in Tarragona on October 13rd, 2013. All of them, according\u00a0to the motto of the feast of the beatification, were \u00abstrong and courageous witnesses of faith\u00bb. They died forgiving and thus they became martyrs of Christ who, on the Cross, forgave his persecutors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BLESSED MARTYRS OF TARRAGONA The seven Claretian martyrs of Tarragona came from two communities very close to each other: Tarragona and La\u00a0Selva\u00a0del Camp. Their martyrdoms took place separately, at different times and places. ANTONI CAPDEVILA\u00a0 When the revolution of July 1936 broke out, our Brother belonged to the community of La\u00a0Selva\u00a0del Camp. His first …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3294,"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3084\/revisions\/3294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SEBASTI\u00c1 BALSELLS\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n
BROTHERS ANDREU FEL\u00cdU AND PAU CASTELL\u00c1,<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n
BR<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0ANTONI VILAMASSANA AND FR<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0FREDERIC VILA<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n
CON<\/span><\/span>CLUSION<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n