General Franco and the Nationalist forces won the Spanish Civil War, which came to an end in early 1939. The violence and atrocities from both sides had left at least 500,000 people dead. "Both ...

Spain on Monday marked the 80th anniversary of the 1936-39 civil war which ushered in the dictatorship of Francisco Franco with the country still divided over the issue.

Pope Leo XIV carries on his pectoral cross, among others, a relic of an Augustinian martyr bishop, Anselmo Polanco, who was executed during the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War.