Word: vitoria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anticlerical." The Holy See early this month appointed an archbishop coadjutor for the archdiocese of Seville with rights and functions equal to Segura's and with the "right of succession.'' He is affable, 50-year-old José Maria Bueno y Monreal, former bishop of Vitoria and an ardent supporter of Franco...
...busy provincial town of Vitoria in the heart of the Basque country, a horse-drawn police van clattered down the cobblestoned Street of the Founder of the Handmaidens of Jesus and stopped at the decaying old courthouse. Two prisoners stepped out. From the watching crowd a woman and a small girl darted forward, crying, "Felix! . . . Papa!" The woman tried to kiss the husband she had not seen for almost three years; the child threw herself into his arms. Grey-clad police intervened. "In with you!" they said gruffly, and the two prisoners disappeared into the courthouse, to join 15 others...
...were charged with a plot "to overthrow the government [and] incite seditious strikes," but actually the heart of their offense was that they were Basques. In May 1951, when labor unrest broke out in Spain, Vitoria's 5,000 workers stayed quietly at home for five days. They did not riot in the streets or break windows, as some in other places had done. The trouble had not even started in Basque country, but in Catalan Barcelona. But when the Madrid authorities began looking for scapegoats, their angry eyes fell on Vitoria, where there are plenty of men with...
...police, this was the first time that they had been denounced and pilloried in public. Ugly and depressing as it was, the work of court and defense lawyers and the outcome of the case brought a candle's gleam of hope to many in darkened Spain. Said a Vitoria lawyer: "It looks as if justice and human rights might be on their way back to this tormented land...
...stoutly Roman Catholic Basques have rallied around their church as the last champion of their national rights. Their clergy, unlike the Spanish church, was overwhelmingly anti-Franco in the Civil War; the Franco government, in reprisal, executed 1.7 priests, imprisoned many others, and exiled the Basque Bishop of Vitoria. Although new Spanish bishops were sent to three Basque dioceses, the local clergy remained rebellious, went on teaching the catechism in the Basque language and talking about Basque national traditions from their pulpits-both serious crimes in the eyes of Franco's government...