Word: manresa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the south one force drove up the narrow shore line to Sitjes and beyond. Barcelona was 15 miles away. From the northwest another column came down on Manresa. Barcelona was 30 miles away, but this force was headed toward the sea north of the Loyalist capital in an apparent effort to encircle the city, cut it off from France. The western attackers reached Martorell. Barcelona was 10 miles away...
...West, 1,200 laymen throughout the year retreat at the monastery of the Passionist Fathers at Sierra Madre near Los Angeles, while others attend El Retiro, San Inigo, a retreat conducted by Jesuits near San Francisco. A place favored by Manhattan businessmen and politicians is Mount Manresa on Staten Island. In Chicago such good Catholics as Judge John Patrick McGoorty, President Dennis Francis Kelly of The Fair (department store), President Frederick H. Massman of National Tea Company and Mayor James Joseph Kelly's brother Stephen spend "Sixty Golden Hours" in the Franciscan retreat nearby at Mayslake. Last week Catholics...
...many weeks for a chance to rise. Bilbao was their signal. In Barcelona a swiftly thrown police dragnet arrested the organizer of a general strike, an Italian named Duriti, and dozens of assistants, seized truckloads of pamphlets and posters. Trouble centered further north, about the manufacturing town of Manresa, where 410 years ago St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, spent a year in a cave preparing his Exercitia Spiritualia...
Miners and textile workers cut all telephone wires and cables out of Manresa, then seized thousands of pounds of dynamite from the Iberian Potash Works. Up and down the valley spread the revolution. Soviet flags went up over Berga, Alto, Gironella, Puigreig, Salient, Cardona. Excited crowds rallied to Leon Trotsky's old slogan: "EUROPE IS BURNING AT BOTH ENDS!!" Rich farmers and mill owners were kidnapped. Peasants were threatened with death...
Five battalions of infantry, a squadron of cavalry, a battery of artillery took the field and Manresa and the other towns were invaded. The "Catalonian Workers' Republic" fell as quickly as it had risen. Most of the inhabitants were heartily glad to see the soldiers. By nightfall troops were playing hide and seek in the mountains with the last of the revolutionists. In Barcelona the government chartered the liner Buenos Aires, loaded it with political prisoners and ordered the captain to sail without any destination until he received further orders by wireless...