PRINTS SPANISH MARTYROLOGY

Red-Defending Anglican Bishop Confuted by Facts
The Times has printed the Martyrology of religious killed in Spain since the beginning of the war and the persecution.
Dean Inge declares: " It is really rather horrible to find a Bishop championing men who, acting on instructions from Moscow to exterminate the middle class, have slaughtered at a low estimate, zoo,000 helpless and harmless people, and whose avowed object is to extirpate the Christian faith in the country of St. Teresa and St. John of the Cross."
These were some of the reactions to in a letter to The Times stating. " There never was, there never has been, any official attack upon the priests of the Church."
As reported in the CATHOLIC HERALD of April 29, this and other statements in defence of Red Spain were made originally by the Bishop at a Queen's Hall propaganda meeting. Writing to The Times to complain that he never said that " there was no religious persecution in Republican Spain," the Bishop re-iterated the above statement and attributed any killing of priests to the fact that " a revolution, like a boiling-pot, throws up a scum." To reinforce his point he stated that even the Osservatore Romano only claimed that 6,000 priests had been murdered.
Violation of Nuns Answering next day, Sir Henry Lunn quoted the Left Wing paper, Solidaridad Obrera, for its mocking of the words of the. Spanish Foreign Minister at Geneva who " was trying to give tone to the discussion there": " It is enough," wrote the paper, "to judge religion by the simple
the Bishop of Chelmsford's declaration
fact of its burnt churches. Not one remains standing, not an effigy remains intact" On Monday, Dean Inge wrote the above quoted indictment of the Bishop and said also: " Many (nuns) have been killed; but the Bishop's proteges were more often content to strip them naked and violate them." Corrimander James, M.P., and the Hon. Mrs. Aubrey Herbert added first and second-hand (through Miss Gabriel Herbert, in charge of Bishop's Committee for Spanish Relief Ambulances in Spain) of the desecrated and filthy state of churches in captured territory where they had been put to secular purposes, On Tuesday Fr. George Burns, &J., wrote:
Authorities in Rome are at present engaged in compiling a careful Martyrology. Twenty-eight religious Orders have sent in official estimates of their own dead. Here
is the list. . Then follows the list printed in the CATHOLIC HERALD Of April 14, brought up to date.
Fr. Burns added that there were 33,500 priests in Spain in 1936, and 20,640 members of religious orders, not over 100,000 as the Bishop of Chelmsford had contended.