Red Terror (Spain) on 25 July, feast day of St James, patron saint of Spain. August saw a further 2,077 clerical victims. After just two months of civil war, 3400 priests, monks and nuns had been murdered. According to recent research, some of the Republican death squads were heavily staffed by members of the Soviet Union's secret police, the NKVD. According to author Donald Rayfield, "Stalin, Yezhov, and Beria distrusted Soviet participants in the Spanish war. Military advisors like Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko, journalists like Koltsov were open to infection by the heresies, especially Trotsky's, prevalent among the Republic's supporters. NKVD agents sent to Spain
Patron Saints of the Hen Ogledd Patron Saints of the Hen Ogledd This is a list of Cumbrian saints, including saints more loosely associated with Hen Ogledd: many of them will have links to sites elsewhere in regions with significant ancient British history, such as Wales, Cornwall, Brittany or Devon. Saint Kentigern, or Mungo is said to be the son of Taneu, a princess of Gododdin, in the Hen Ogledd. He is believed to have died c. 612. Taneu became pregnant after she was raped by the leader of Rheged, Owain mab Urien. Later in his life, after expulsion from Pictland, the region of the Picts,