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Thread #166698   Message #4022940
Posted By: keberoxu
08-Dec-19 - 11:52 PM
Thread Name: BS: relocation of Franco's remains
Subject: RE: BS: relocation of Franco's remains
If only it were that simple, Mrrzy.
But if it's Spain, and Franco, that means
there is an unholy tangled web of things,
and no small amount of corruption.

Consider the Valley of the Fallen situation.
There is more going on there than
a mausoleum and a memorial.

There is actually a Benedictine abbey there, complete with abbot and monks.
I'm afraid to pursue my curiosity and look at how this religious order got mixed up with the Franco regime and all.
I expect I would find something as sinister as the dear old Inquisition from centuries before.

If you're bothering with this thread in any detail,
then you know that Franco's remains have left the mausoleum permanently.
He is now next to his dear departed spouse's remains, his own having been transported by helicopter.

I recall a news report that before the City of Madrid prevailed, and got the coffin et cetera moved, that Benedictine abbot at the Valley of the Fallen
tried to stop the whole exhumation thing in its tracks on religious grounds of some sort.
Which meant a big public gesture intended to make the Vatican take notice.

And if I read right,
the Vatican looked in the direction of the Madrid Benedictine abbot,
shook its collective head,
and said,
where were we before we were so rudely interrupted ...