Burning Jesuit Monastery in Madrid, 1936-1939

Undated photo of a burning Jesuit convent (today demolished) on the Gran Via in Madrid, Spain. Smoke flows from the doors of the church building. In the foreground, mounted policemen of the Guardia Civil (paramilitary police unit, which mostly joined the French troops in the Spanish Civil War) keep demonstrators away from the building. In the background, a construction site. Even before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July, 1936, Communists and other leftist supporters destroyed churches and monasteries, and used violence against Catholic priests

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1936-1939 Boulevard Burn Communists Convent Demolished Demonstrators Destroy Flows Gran Guardia Infected Jesuit Joined Leftist Monasteries Mostly Outbreak Paramilitary Priests Protesters Rampage Supporters

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