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mona

10-28-2007 11:13 AM

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catholic church, pope, beatification, spanish, spain, controversial

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10-29-2007 3:37 AM

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I believe there is a typo in the article, regarding the years of the civil war. As far as i recall it should be 1936–1939.

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