El Alcázar

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Published on the Feast of Beheading of St. John the Baptist and Feast of St. Sabina (martyr), August 29,

in the year of Our Lord 2008

"If God calls you to defend Him, it is not because His hand has become any less powerful: ... Rather, God looks down at the children of man and wants to offer them the path of mercy;

His goodness is giving you the day of forgiveness.

He chose you as the instrument of His revenge. He wants to be indebted to you for the destruction of His enemies and the triumph of His justice. Yes, the Omnipotent God

calls you to make reparation for your sins by defending His glory and His name.

Christians warriors, these are combats worthy of you, combats that will attract the blessings

of earth and Heaven, in which death itself will be for you but another triumph.

Illustrious knights, remember the examples of your ancestors who conquered Jerusalem and whose names were inscribed in the Book of Life. Put on the Cross ... which will earn you the conquest of the celestial kingdom."
 

An excerpt from the speech St. Bernard addressed to the Catholic knights assembled

in Vezelay in Burgundy, France, regarding the Second Crusade convoked by

Pope Eugenius III on December 1, 1145.

[Published by Tradition in Action website quoting História da Cruzadas, Joseph-Francois Michaud, Editora das Américas, vol, 2, book 6, p. 234]

The glory of El Alcázar

It should be noted that many objections or questions could be raised or asked why this war was

waged and why some kind of compromise or agreement was not reached. To the voices of such

evil doom of compromise one has to present the facts, perhaps not yet fully understood by

them or not known to them. 

If, after they've learned the truth and still remain in maintaining and upholding their erroneous

position, they will learn the hard way, as many of their predecessors [guilty of such error of

compromise with evil] have learned throughout the ages.

There is no possibility of compromises ever being accepted nor made with the communists.

It is not possible to allow to accept compromises with the devil and his servants. Justice and

truth must prevail and must be defended, there is no other alternative.

That the voices calling for compromises have no true Catholic Faith in them, nor they stand

firmly for justice and truth, is apparent today, for many people have accepted the clearly

false collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union, which was nothing

but part of the Russian communist long-term strategic plan, which objectives are no less

than to completely overrun and submit the whole world to this diabolical atheistic communist tyranny.

It is therefore essential to notice that while the Spanish Civil War was clearly waged in order to

prevent such evil to destroy the Catholic Faith in Spain and to defend the honor of God and His

Church against the forces of Satan, today, while many people accepted the Russian communist

deception of Communism being "dead and buried forever", we are faced with much worse

situation, a world-wide brutal communist struggle, which is coming soon, which will require

much more than just few committed Catholic military patriots who led the Spanish Catholics

to their final victory over the communist murderers during the 1936 Spanish Civil War.

The story of heroic defense of the Alcázar

State of war against the communist government was publicly declared in Toledo, as this

declaration was previously withheld to gain more time to prepare to fight, but as the

communist requested ammunition was not being sent to Madrid, Colonel Moscardó's

delaying game was no longer possible to conceal and thus continue the Alcázar's deception

of "somewhat loyalty" towards the Red Government of Spain, it became clear that by then the

government was fully aware that the Alcázar was openly defying its "legitimate" authority,

and so the defenders of Faith openly joined the military uprising. 

Before it was done however, Colonel Moscardó asked the officers present to take a vote

whether they will resist the communists, and all of the officers were unanimously without

exception for joining in the Holy Crusade against Communism. 

When the ammunition was brought successfully into the fortress, Colonel Moscardó ordered

several platoons to carry out the defense of the city against the soon arriving Red Militia

columns.

But when the time progressed, it became evident that such successful defense, due to

the overwhelming number of the communist forces sent from Madrid, was not possible

to carry out.

The defenders at least slowed down the advancing communists from reaching the ammunition

factory, while the boxes of cartridges were still being loaded, but once this operation was concluded and the Alcázar defenders had the substantial means to defend themselves inside the fortress, the order came to withdraw and leave the defense of the factory to the platoons stationed there, which outfit gave up without resistance, no doubt under orders given by the unreliable commanding officer Colonel Soto.

Various posts around town had to be abandoned for the same reason, being only supplied with

less than adequate weapons and small supply of ammunition, and so these detachments were

also ordered to withdraw back to the Alcázar, counting very few casualties on the way.

Once the defense of the whole city was no longer possible, those who wished to take refuge

inside the Alcázar were allowed in, and some political hostages were also brought in,

including the Civil Governor of Toledo and his entire family, and various people with

left-wing political association.  

When the episode with arrest and murder of Colonel Moscardó's son Luis was over, even

though the Colonel haven't found out about the death of his son until the siege of Alcázar was

over and the city of Toledo was liberated by General Franco, the Alcázar defenders were ready

to resist to the last man the communist forces.

The fortress was submitted daily, and later on when flood lights were brought in, also nightly,

to systematical communist artillery barrage and air bombardment.

Colonel Moscardó wrote the following on this account ["The General Cause - The Red

Domination in Spain", Madrid 1946, page 325 - 326]:

"From the beginning of the siege, cross-fire with rifles and machine-guns

was almost incessant, though of varying intensity, increasing towards mid-day,

and diminishing at night.

 

We suffered two infantry assaults made with the intention of penetrating into the

Alcázar: One on the 18th September [1936] when they managed to climb the ruins of

the North facade where they fastened a red flag [ed. note - so much for the "variety"

of political opinions within the "republican" army, as Mr. Eby would have us

believe - quoted in Part 1]; on being driven back, they tried again 3 times, but

every time in less strength until finally they desisted, the attack dying down to

the daily cross-firing, though a little heavier than usual.  

 

The artillery too, kept up an almost permanent fire.

 

During the first days, the enemy employed a battery of 7.5 cm [cca 2.95 inches], 

which they soon increased to one of 10.5 cm [4.13 inches]; but seeing the small

material effect they were causing to the Alcázar, they brought two pieces of

15.5 cm [6.1 inch] which they placed ...some 3500 meters [est. 2.2 miles] from

the Alcázar and close to the road from Madrid.

----

About August 18 [1936] they began to fire with the 15.5 cm pieces and within 3 days

they shot 98 grenades. During the last days of the siege they fired as many as 478

grenades in one single day, the total number of 15.5 cm discharges effected during

the siege being calculated pretty exactly at 3500 and at some 10 thousand those fired

with smaller guns.

----

The enemy aviation attacked the Alcázar almost daily, though with few planes

using bombs of 12 and 50 kilograms [est. 27 and 111 lbs] which caused little material

damage except in the case of the Capuchin monks [monastery] which disappeared

in consequence of an air bombardment."

In this we can find out that the determination of the forces of evil was to destroy the fortress

and murder those inside, no matter what the communists were promising if the defenders

surrender. [The promise was to have a "fair trial" before the "peoples courts"....which was

unanimously rejected by the Catholics.]

Colonel Moscardó continues about the siege ["The General Cause - The Red Domination

in Spain", Madrid 1946, page 324]:

"For the defense of the Alcázar we depended on the armament of the Civil Guard, of

the Academy, School of Gymnastics, Storm Guards, and Special Security Police, who

together had about one thousand rifles and musquets; the Academy had two

mountain cannons with the supply of 50 shells, 13 Hotchkiss 7mm machine-guns,

and 13 quick-fire guns of the same make and caliber, all of them used for instruction

of the cadets; and a 50 mm mortar [50 shells Valero].

--

.......800 thousand cartridges for rifles and machine-guns from the arms factory,

50  7cm shells, four cases of hand grenades Laffite; one case of hand incendiary

grenades #25, and some 100 small bombs and one electric explosive....

Quite a difference comparing to the overwhelming and virtually unlimited resources the

communists had at their disposal, it is obvious that what drove the defenders to not to give up

and to fight to the death, was their firm Catholic Faith and love for God, their love of country

and of justice, and their determination to rather die in battle than to surrender to the forces of

evil.

Colonel Moscardó also listed the scarce food provisions the Alcázar had at the time, which

were absolutely insufficient to support the defenders for a prolonged defense of the fortress,

and so the food and water had to be severely rationed.

Summer vacations were the reason why the supplies of food were very low, for there was

no need to provision the kitchen beyond that what was necessary for the remaining military

personnel. 

Colonel Moscardó continues about the siege ["The General Cause - The Red Domination

in Spain", Madrid 1946, page 324]:

"We had first planned to overcome the bread shortage by consuming the supply of

grubby wheat which was used as food for the cattle [!!!], and this we already began

to do, counting on the store of barley for the cattle, in case of need.

 

But fortunately we discovered a deposit of wheat belonging to a Bank, on the

eastern side of the Alcázar, which contained some two thousand sacks of wheat, of

ninety kilograms each [200 lbs], and of excellent quality.

 

With this providential find, and with the Academy's and Civil Guard's horses and

mules, the food problem was solved, it was hoped - though in a very precarious

manner - until the siege might end.

 

The bread ration, allowing for the dimensions of the field oven, did not reach

180 grams per person [roughly 6.3 ounces], owing to the large number of

consumers and the small amount able to be ground by the corn-mill found

in the Administration Museum; the meat had to be severely rationed as the

siege carried on, and when it ended there were only one horse and five mules

alive which would have supplied the very scanty ration during another six days

at the most...."

I'd like to remind the reader that there were about 2000 people within the walls of the Alcázar

and that to maintain defense of the fortress, with no serious prospect of being relieved [at least

in the beginning no communication came forth from the advancing Gen. Franco's forces and the

defenders' communications were cut off by the communists, including phone and electricity]

that to continue the defense of the fortress the only force that was necessary to continue was the

superior Faith of the defenders and the corresponding help from God, without which all of it

would've been lost.

I'd like to also bring it to the attention of the people, specially those born in America, who

love the life of luxury and of plenty, and who have already replaced the humble acceptance of

whatever hardship their life may bring [for the love of Our Lord], that the time will come, soon

enough, when a piece of old bread will seem as a luxurious banquet in hotel Hilton, and when

the time comes and when the Russian communist organized and provoked WW3 is on, such

people, who have no idea what hunger is and what it is to have to live in hiding somewhere in

the woods, what a real nuclear war represents for hardship, specially in the middle of bitterly

cold winter, that there were countless martyrs and defenders of the Apostolic Catholic Faith,

who, contrary to them, had welcomed the cross of battle against the enemies of Christ rather

than to forgo all, allow the Catholic Faith to be destroyed for the generations to come and loose

thus their soul in the end.

When you compare the apathy and indifference of today Catholics in regards to the upcoming

Russian communist scourge, which is imminent and real, with the Catholic valor of such

humble Spanish Catholics, as those who defended the Alcázar were, the tragedy seen in such

contrast will increase the more when the war begins and these spoiled people have to take care

not to get caught by the communists and get stripped by various brutal means, which they on

their own human strength cannot endure and withstand, of the only means to their eternal

salvation, which is the Catholic Apostolic Faith and justice done in works for God.

Colonel Moscardó continues about the siege ["The General Cause - The Red Domination

in Spain", Madrid 1946, page 327]:

"Finding no way of reducing the high spirit of patriotism shown by those who

defended the Alcázar and the honor of Spain, the enemy finally resorted to

underground warfare by means of mines; this they could carry out with impunity

as the Alcázar possessed no means of counter-attack.

 

In all they constructed 3 mined: One started from a house in Juan Labrador Street

and then branched off; another ended under the Southwest tower of the Alcázar, and

a third under the foundation of the West facade, very near the carriage entrance.

 

They charged these mines with 3000 kilograms [3.345 tons] of powder each, and

after having previously evacuated the civil population to the mountains nearby,

exploded them by electricity on 18th September 1936, causing enormous damage

to the building, but - miraculously - causing only five casualties among the

defenders.

....

The artillery preparation began at six in the morning, when the 15.5 cm batteries

...fired some 90 projectiles against the East facade in the hope that the women,

children, and sick persons lodged there, would be transferred to the basement

of the opposite Western side [ed. note - where the mines were ready...].

 

At 6 : 21 a.m., calculating that the artillery attack had produced the desired effect,

they sprang the mines, and after five minutes, when the gasses had dispersed, they

threw themselves with all their might against the fortress....

---

Not for an instant, however, did any one of us leave his post and we drove the

enemy back with great spirit during all the attacks of that memorable day.

I just wonder, when the time comes, how many whining people, those who laughed at this

author when approached with the facts about Russian communism and its soon-to-come

world-wide communist takeover, yes, how many such people who wouldn't lift a finger and

prepare to defend the honor of God and His Church against these forces of Satan, how many

of them would in fact resolve to do so when it finally becomes evident to them that this is the

truth and that the Holy Crusade against Russian communism is on ?

Or rather how many of them, knowing the facts, have already given up up front and wouldn't

do anything, just waiting like bunch of morally dead people, when they get picked up by the

communist soldiers or police and sent somewhere to a "re-education" camp in Siberia ?

And so many Catholic crusaders gave up their lives so that these procrastinating selfish

"Catholics" could go to church on Sunday and receive what in the first place they don't

even deserve to have....

Acts of Catholic heroism

It is essential to understand that the Holy Crusade was not fought, as the communist evil

propaganda would promote, so that General Franco could take over the whole country and

establish his dictatorship, which in fact was nothing but the rule of law and upholding of the

laws of God and His Church, but it was fought precisely that the eternal salvation of souls

could, at least for 1 more generation, be guaranteed possible in Spain and the honor of God

is defended against His enemies.

Seeing that the Alcázar defenders are not giving up, the communists sent in as an emissary

[a negotiator] former professor at the Academy Major Vicente Rojo, to negotiate a surrender

of the fortress.

He was allowed in, blindfolded and the men, women and children were ordered to remain

strictly silent while the Major passed through their quarters, so that he might not be able to

guess the number of the people within the Alcázar.

Colonel Moscardó explains in detail about this episode ["The General Cause - The Red

Domination in Spain", Madrid 1946, page 331 - 332]:

"When he [Rojo] was brought to my presence, I ordered the bandage to be removed

from his eyes; he saluted me, but I did not shake hands, observing a cold and

correct military attitude...

---

He told me he brought the conditions of surrender, offered by the Defense

Committee of Toledo, which he handed me in writing; these conditions were

to the effect that they would respect the lives of all....[first coming out] women,

children, sick and wounded, and finally the soldiers and Civil Guard, who

would have to deposit their arms in a place assigned; the last clause said that the

Commanders and Officers should come out in the same order, and that they would

be judged by the Tribunals of People according to the part they had taken in the

Movement.

 

I rejected these conditions, in writing too, declaring that I had never felt more

greatly honored than in defending the garrison of the Alcázar, and that I

undertook to maintain the defense of the building and the honor of Spain;

and that we would far sooner die than surrender."

---

One of his colleagues [...from the time when Rojo was still teaching at the Alcázar

Academy - ed. note] suggested that he might stay at the Alcázar, to which he replied

that he had his wife and children in Madrid, and that they would be killed if he did

not return; we answered that nearly all of those present had their families in

Toledo, and yet had never doubted as to which side to take when the honor of the

Country was at stake; but it was plain he had no intention of staying, as he did not

insist further on the matter....

[Ed. note - as it is noted in the conclusion of this article, it is here evident that God's grace

was not with Major Rojo when he declined the offer to join the Alcázar defenders of Faith,

because Rojo has already betrayed God and His Church by siding with the forces of Satan -

this is an extremely important evidence how such betrayal of God, on  part of those today,

who were called to serve Him but instead accepted the snares and evil "offers" of the devil,

God will in most cases not pardon, unless publicly repentant and unless they repair to God

and His Church what evil they have done already, and how in fact they're helping to destroy it.

It is also interesting to notice that when I have read the account of this particular episode

mentioned by Mr. Eby and also quoted by Mr. Carroll, both left out the bold highlighted text,

which words of the Alcázar defenders show the true Catholic sacrifice and the contrasting 

compromise of Major Rojo, which General Moscardo in his report presents clearly in the

negative light - for when the calls to action, for God and the country, are made, and one doesn't

answer or declines to perform his duty to uphold justice and defend God's honor, the Church

and the Faith, then such compromises will prove costly, in the temporal and also eternal sense.

Since this fact, about what Major Rojo was replied to by the Catholics of Alcázar, is left out,

while it is an excellent example of their Crusading and sacrificing moral strength, of such those who don't hesitate to act in such way, then questions should be asked why this is not mentioned and whether it does not serve the enemy, the Russian communists, specially today when the perversion of the Catholic Faith and the, by communist agents, infested Church, are the proofs that we are not taught to offer to God such a sacrifice, which to those of the Alcázar and to all the Spanish Catholics defenders of Faith was a sacred duty towards God and they did not hesitate for a moment.

Sadly so, today, it is not easy to find one person who would offer help to spread

the message, not to mention to be prepared and ready to fight Holy Crusade against

Russian communists and their world-wide communist cohorts....oh, no, not one person !

Would it be wrong then to say that, even when such procrastinators and thus pretenders

to the Faith expect God to always perform for them, but as they are not always willing to

perform for God, even with His help He is, in His infinite mercy, offering them, that God

will not be with them when they finally are forced, by Russian communist atheistic rule,

to taste the evil fruits of their errors ?]

Colonel Moscardó explains more about the siege and the heroic defense of the Alcázar

["The General Cause - The Red Domination in Spain", Madrid 1946, page 337 - 341]:

"There were many heroic and distinguished acts during the time the siege lasted; but among them all for its heroism and self-sacrifice, that of the Captain of Infantry and Professor of the School of Gymnastics, Don Luis Alba Navas, was the most notable.

 

On 23rd and 24th July, the "reds" proclaimed by wireless [means radio broadcast - ed. note] their total occupation of the Alcázar, and in illustrated papers they published faked photographs showing the defenders coming out of the main entrance in groups, with their arms raised over their heads.

 

As all of this was false but might nevertheless deceive the National High Command [the truth was that the morale of the defenders was excellent, and never at any moment had we thought of surrendering or of anything else but defending the honor of Spain and selling our lives at the highest price], I thought of sending a liaison officer to General Mola in the Sierra de Guadarrama, with a few lines to let him know that we continued the defense of the Alcázar and would not surrender under any condition.

---

[Captain Alba] volunteered.

 

He was provided with a pair of blue overalls [ed. note - standard Spanish Red Army

'uniform' at the time], a pistol and ..... a membership card of the Communist Party

which belonged to one of the hostages and luckily did not mention the profession

of the owner, which we filled in as "fisherman"...

---

...about 40 km from Toledo, [Cpt. Alba made a bold move] he called on the Red

Committee and asked for a car to take him to the Province of Avila where he had to

carry out his secret mission.

 

They granted his request but when he was getting into the car, one of the on-lookers

standing round, happening to be a former soldier of the School of Gymnastics and

his assistant there, not meaning any harm, exclaimed: "What are you doing here,

Captain ?"

 

The latter quite calm and in natural way answered he was no captain....but some

doubt having spread already among the "reds", they arrested him .... thence

they decided to send him to Toledo in a car .... [but on the way, meeting some

Red officers and finding out who the prisoner was and that he would've been

protected by the people of Toledo because of his popularity there among the

ordinary people],  ...and so decided to assassinate him on the spot.

 

This they did, and while the prisoner was still lying on the ground handcuffed, they

gave him a finishing shot in his head, abandoning the dead body on the highroad.

...

..the body was taken to Madrid where they paraded it through the streets; to this

day we don't know the resting place of this heroic Captain, who never hesitated to

offer his life for the honor of his Country in an enterprise which had so little chance

of success.

 

This Officer became father for the fourth time on July 17th, and yet the love for his

wife and four children, all of them in Toledo [!!!], did not for one moment avert

him from the fulfillment of the duty he had voluntarily undertaken.

 

The deed has been rewarded with the Laureate Cross of San Fernando.

Well, many other stories of Catholic [not fascist, as the communist propaganda would have

you believe] valor during the glorious Holy Crusade against Russian and related communism

in Spain during those times could be told, but today, all this is completely forgotten or

accepted as a "fascist civil war" which could've been avoided, as some say "the always

unlawful  resistance against a legitimate authority", which we are erroneously taught to

believe that we can never oppose such "authority" or rebel against it [some say], even when

the honor of God, the survival of the Catholic Apostolic Faith and the well-being of our fellow

men are at stake, even then we are told we cannot rebel - what a shame this is, what a terrible

evil it is to teach this today, the evil of heretical pacifism [an important part of Russian

communist strategy to take over the world], and it consequentially brings with it the

wide-spread apathy, unreasonable and ungodly fear, and or the most evil indifference....

Colonel Moscardó continues about the heroism of the Alcázar defenders:

"Another notable case of bravery was that of soldier in the Troop Section of the

Academy of Infantry, Calvary and Commissariat, Francisco Palomares Garrido by

name who, on sentry at a window of the fourth section overlooking Carmen Hill,

observed that a 7.5 cm cannon was mounted in a court-yard of the neighboring

convent for the purpose of firing at the fourth section from a distance of some

200 meters [220 yards]; from the window, only the mouth of the cannon was

visible through a loophole in the wall of the yard.

 

Palomares at once began to shoot at it aiming carefully at the muzzle as the only

means of reducing it to silence.

 

The gunners, however, succeeded in loading and discharging the cannon under our

man's fire. The result was that the sentry-box was destroyed, Palomares falling

amongst the debris.

 

Without thinking whether he was hurt or not, he immediately sprang up and

ran to the breach and continued shooting at the cannon until he succeeded in

silencing it.

It is also noted in other works that General Franco had sent a letter to the Alcázar defenders,

dropped by an airplane alongside some necessary medical supplies and food, informing

them that the National Forces were approaching and encouraging the defenders to hold out

until relieved. 

It is also notable, that there was no priest in the Alcázar during the siege, for all Church

ministers were in the town, many of them murdered by the communists or in hiding.

This, in fact, most likely will be our fate when the Russian led communist forces try to establish

their diabolical rule, but, as we have this glorious example of God's help given to the Spanish

Catholics [and to those of the Alcázar fortress we quote here], if firm, patient and persevering,

God will be with us also, for He will not leave His children without help and protection, if

they first choose and unconditionally offer to fight for Him and defend His name against His

enemies.

These Church ministers had no time nor could have taken the refuge within the fortress,

because of the siege and the swift arrival of the Red militia from Madrid, which sealed off all

access to the Alcázar, some of these heroic priest preferred to stay with the people of Toledo

in the time of need, many of them paid the highest price of martyrdom for it.

Holy Sacrifice of Mass was not celebrated in the Alcázar during the time of the communist siege, but only once, by Cannon Vazques Camarasa, a pro-communist priest,. 

Colonel Moscardó requested of Major Rojo, when he was inside the Alcázar, to allow a

condemned priest to come inside the fortress to share the fate of the defenders [and thus

he'd be able to minister to their spiritual needs], and the Reds sent Fr. Camarasa instead,

and as Colonel Moscardó was aware of the dirty tricks the communists played in such

cases, especially also on those who were condemned to death and asked for a priest to hear

their confession and were confessing to a communist criminal pretending to be the Church

minister, Moscardó asked his staff whether anybody knew this priest coming the next day.

There were two officers who knew Cannon Camarasa personally and he was recognized by

them before he was allowed to enter, him being dressed in civilian clothes, duly blindfolded

as he was brought in.

There was no time to hear private confessions, as the seize-fire was only agreed to last for

3 hours [and there were about 2000 souls in the Alcázar], so Father gave only general

absolution, as Gen. Moscardo writes ["TGC", pg. 334 - 336]:

"....in a moment of inexpressible emotion for us all ....

 

...he then celebrated the Mass, pronounced a few words to us all, referring to the

glory which would be ours, though in the next world and not in this, because it

was his firm conviction that we should be defeated....

 

...he then celebrated the Holy Communion (using the Sacred Hosts kept by the

Sisters of Charity of the Alcázar), of which my A.D.C. and number of other officers,

the Sisters of Charity, and many ladies partook; finally in a magnificent procession

filled with religious fervor and patriotism, the Holy Sacrament was carried to the

seriously wounded at the infirmary, where scenes of an exalted patriotism

impossible to describe took place.

 

His spiritual mission ended, we returned to my quarters and I soon discovered

the real motive which had brought him.

 

....he said he quite understood our attitude to defend ourselves against the attacks

from those outside the fortress, but what he failed to understand was why innocent

women and children should have to bear the dangers and privations of the siege.

 

I at once saw quite clearly his intention to make it a question of conscience and see

if he could persuade me to evacuate the women and children and that this was the

principal object in coming to the Alcázar.

[Ed. note - this was much more dangerous proposition than Gen. Moscardó explains in his

simple and humble 1939 account of what has happened, for if he had agreed and the women

and children were sent to the enemy, they would have been no doubt persecuted and used

as political hostages to force their husbands inside the Alcázar to reconsider their resolve to

continue with the defense - and there could not have been any trust as to the guarantee that

the communists would not murder some of these women and children if the remaining

defenders of the Alcázar continued to fight.....

One has to wonder whether this simple logic was not evident to Fr. Camarasa, but we also

know that he said that the Alcazar defenders should be defeated....today, how many such

people are in the same position of giving such ungodly "advice".....many of those who

have already accepted such error (pacifism) will learn the truth  only when they have to face

the dangers of war unprepared, and then God at the end, if they did nothing to defend Him

against His enemies.....]

Colonel Moscardó continues:

 

So I sent for one of the women, who, in representation of all the others told him that

they felt perfectly safe among the gentlemen who defended them, and whose fate

they would share, whatever the upshot of the siege might be.

 

In view of this clear and valiant declaration he soon came to conclusion that nothing

was to be gained from that quarter.

---

Considering the quality of this emissary, we showed him the inner court-yard so

that he might see its condition; he was profoundly impressed by the sight, stating

that we, by defending ourselves were as much responsible as those who attacked,

an inopportune and unpatriotic statement which we tolerated, coming as it did from

a priest, but which revealed his sympathy for the cause we were striving against. "

Conclusion

Today, as these secret communist forces are more established in strength within the American

and European governments and the society world-wide, all these enemies of God, subordinate to Moscow [either by communist association or by KGB run  blackmail], there is no way that these criminals will stop or fulfill their evil task peaceably.

They will unleash their communist terror as soon as they have everything ready for it, which

time is almost here. One just has to watch their ploys, apparent for example during the recent

Democratic Party Convention, among others that is.....

It is like being 20 years back in time, for us who know communism first hand, because the same

kind of empty words and revolutionary slogans are used today by such devil's henchmen, as

their master is calling them to action, which is coming soon.

It is also clear that when the recent Russian "invasion" of Georgia was in the news, this kind of

military operation was evidently conducted as a preparatory military exercise, conducted for

the purpose to practice a military invasion of a country.

In the case of Georgia is was not at all risky, as this is not an "independent" republic, but a fully

subordinate KGB run Soviet Republic [as the rest of them are also], and the Kremlin clearly

wanted to test the troops' preparedness for such operations.

Which country they will most likely [or shall we declare most certainly ?] hit next,

I don't think I need to name, do I ?

The example of 1936 Spain, how the communists got to power [by fraud], how they worked

tirelessly to impose and preserve their communist brutal rule on the rest of the people,

that is, what will be the reality all over the world - and those who don't see it, or who don't

think it will be so serious, they will just have to learn the hard way - for this is the

chastisement coming from God, because this wicked spoiled infidel or heretical world,

full of sin and crimes against God, crimes of blasphemy against His Most Holy Mother,

against His Church and the Kingship of His only Son, and against His Commandments,

world full of immorality and upheld injustice, is on its way to be seriously awakened by

the Kremlin led Bolshevik criminals, who are ready today. 

And for this God's justice, He will be hated by many, as foretold in the Holy Scripture, for

those who don't love God are His enemies and side with and serve the devil instead....

So it is, so it is, and so it will be.

Let us summarize what we know, it adds up to the following:

The Alcázar defenders, being all honest God loving Catholics, had the superior weapon in

their hands, which is the Apostolic Catholic Faith and their firm trust in God's help, which

comes through the hands of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and also our Mother,

Our Heavenly Queen.

They knew what had to be done because the Church has taught it so, they knew that if

they've given up up front, they would have damned their souls forever [if not given chance

to repent and amend what they would have done - that is give up on God and His Church

and surrender].

Faced with overwhelming communist force, bombed daily from artillery and from the air,

submitted to danger every moment since the siege began, highly destructive mines under the

fortress being exploded without the defenders being able to do anything about it, except to

pray to God for help [which is the proper way at such times and at all times, when humanly

we can no longer do anything else but to pray], these heroic Catholics knew that God will not

forsake them and will help, and they knew through the eyes of faith that even if they were to

loose at the end and were killed, they have done the will of God and defended His honor

against His enemies.    

They knew the teaching of the Church, which, for example, is presented in great clearness

by the Holy Council of Trent - Catechism [Translated in 1829 by Rev. Fr. J. Donovan, professor, &C. Royal College, Maynooth, U.K., published by the Catholic Publication Society, NY, NY, pages 203 - 204 - in regards to the Sacrament of Penance, our satisfaction to God for our sins]:

"Of the great efficacy of penance we may form some idea, if we reflect that it arises

entirely from the merits of the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ; it is his passion that

imparts to our good actions the two-fold quality of meriting the rewards of eternal

life, so that a cup of cold water given in his name shall not be without reward, and, 

also, of satisfying for our sins.

 

 Nor does this derogate from the most perfect and superabundant satisfaction of

Christ, but, on the contrary, renders it still more conspicuous and illustrious;

the grace of Jesus Christ appears to abound more, inasmuch as it communicates

to us not only what he alone merited, but also what, as head, he merited and paid

in his members, that is, in holy and just men.

 

This it is that imparts such weight and dignity to the good actions of the pius

Christian; for our Lord Jesus Christ continually infuses his grace into the devout

soul united to him by charity, as the head to the members, or as the vine through

the branches, and this grace always precedes, accompanies and follows our good

works : without it we can have no merit, nor can we at all satisfy God.

 

Hence it is that nothing seems wanting to the just : by their works done by the

power of God, they fulfill the divine law, as far as is compatible with our present

condition, and can merit eternal life, to the fruition of which they shall be admitted,

if they depart this life adorned with divine grace: "He, "says the Redeemer [St. John

IV : 13 - 14], "that shall drink of the water that I will give him, shall not thirst for

ever; but the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water,

springing up into life everlasting."

[Ed. note - present condition - the Alcázar defenders acted in defense of the Catholic Faith and

were ready to face the dangers of war rather than to give up up front and submit to the evil of

communism, as the Church teaches us to do [Summa Theologica - Vengeance] - this is what is

meant by "our present condition" - they have done their best to resist such evil committed on

God and His Church, and precisely because they have not folded their weapons and

surrendered to the communist forces of Satan, God was with them, He gave them this grace

before and during the siege, so that their works of charity towards God could have merited

them in full and satisfy for what they personally owed to God for their sins...clearly this is the

teaching of the Church and the divinely inspired truth....the opposite is being taught today

- the 3rd Secret of Fatima is not a joke, not at all !!!] 

The teaching of the Council of Trent continues:

 

"In satisfaction two things are particularly required; the one, that he who satisfies be

in the state of grace, the friend of God : works done without faith and charity

cannot be acceptable to God : the other, that the works performed be such as are of

their own nature painful or laborious.

 

They are a compensation for past sins, and, to use the words of St. Cyprian [Lib.

1. Epistle 3, post. med.], "the redeemers, as it were, of sins, " and must, therefore,

be such as we have described.....

 

It does not, however, always follow that they are painful or laborious to those who

undergo them : the influence of habit or the intensity of divine love frequently

renders the soul insensible to things the most difficult to be endured.

 

Such works, however, do not therefore seize to be satisfactory : it is the privilege of

the children of God to be so inflamed with his love, that whilst undergoing the most

cruel tortures for his sake, they are either entirely insensible to them, or at least bear

them not only with fortitude but with the greatest joy..."

Yes, this is the truth.

Some dare to suggest, again erroneously, that "God invites His children to participate in

His sufferings in peace" [meaning the chastisement we are to experience soon], but, if this

was true, then there would be no such meritorious works of charity towards God possible,

if we were "to remain in our place" [meaning for us to continue doing nothing in the regard

to  us being prepared willing to defend in Holy War God and His Church against these

approaching Russian communist hoards, as these voices teach - in error again], then how

can we possibly satisfy for our sins, the required works of justice, charity and piety which

we owe to God ? 

Today, and this is extremely sad, the opposite mentality and practice, clearly contrary to those

who defended the Alcázar for example, is the reality - and when you consider the 3rd Secret of

Fatima and the Russian communist ploys to infiltrate and subvert the Holy Mother Church

with thousands of KGB agents, then you know why it is so right away.....

When God sends His own Mother to warn us about Russian communism [in Fatima] and we

do nothing to prepare to face it, to fight it in Holy Crusade, who could wonder then when the

communist scourge comes that God could withdraw His help from such procrastinating

ungrateful people, who even dare to call themselves Catholic, when in fact, they don't do what

is expected of them to do, that is to have firm faith and trust in God's help while they do their

own part - defending Him against His enemies without giving up up front.

The Alcázar defenders and all the Catholic crusaders of Spain proved by their Catholic valor

that they are worthy to be called children of God, they have sacrificed everything, including

their lives, to defend their Apostolic Faith and to fight the satanic enemy to the death, which

many of them met in battle, which is their eternal glory now in Heaven, and they knew that if

they did nothing, if they said to God "do it Yourself and we will pray to You and do more

penance", and if they followed what the Catholic faithful are told today, that "we all deserve

to be punished and that we should prepare for the hour of 'redemption', as God invites us to

participate in His sufferings in peace...." [data], then all the glorious examples of Catholic valor

during the Spanish Holy Crusade in 1936 - 1939 would have been for nothing.

Please, let us think this over again, for the time is near when there will not be more time to

think and to just pray and do more penance, but when decisive action will be required, or else

you will be deeply in sin, separated from God because you would have betrayed His love for

you, as He is giving you a chance of your lifetime - to redeem your poor souls from eternal

death by sacrificing yourselves even unto death, to fight this Holy Crusade against Russian

led communism, to the fullest and with the vision of final victory always in front of you, either

temporal, or if it be the will of God in your particular case, by dying in Holy battle for God,

directly the eternal victory.

May God through His Most Holy Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary, guide your souls

and your actions to your eternal salvation, for the everlasting glory of God,

forever and ever.

Amen.

In Christ and Mary

yours truly

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