A commentary article for a religious-liberty policy institute's magazine, citing historian Stanley G. Payne's assessment that the Spanish Red Terror was "the most extensive and violent persecution of Catholicism in Western history, in some way even more intense than that of the French Revolution," and summarizing the 6,832 clerical deaths and the beatification of martyrs beginning under Pope John Paul II. Its institutional viewpoint favors emphasizing anti-religious persecution; used here only for the named historian's comparative assessment, not as the source of any figure.
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PublisherReligion and Liberty (Acton Institute) 1 Publication Year URLhttps://www.acton.org/publications/transatlantic/2017/11/06/remembering-martyrs-socialism-spanish-civil-war 1 Assessment
Reliability TierA policy-institute commentary piece with a declared religious-liberty viewpoint, tier 3; used narrowly for the named historian Stanley Payne's direct quotation rather than for any figure, checkable against Payne's own published work. Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names John Paul II directly: "of martyrs beginning under Pope John Paul II."
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- Religious Events, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
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