during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939...
especially in the early months of the conflict
individual clergymen were executed
while entire religious communities
were persecuted...
leading to a death toll of
13 bishops
4,172 diocesan priests and seminarians
2,364 monks and friars
and 283 nuns
for a total of
6,832 clerical victims
as part of what is referred to
as Spain's Red Terror
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