EWTN News, through its Spanish-language arm ACI Prensa, reports on the 90th anniversary of the destruction of the Sacred Heart monument at Cerro de los Ángeles by Popular Front militiamen on August 7, 1936. The article details the 1919 consecration of Spain to the Sacred Heart by King Alfonso XIII, the mock trial and dynamiting of the statue, the recapture of the site by Nationalist forces under General Varela, and the subsequent reconstruction inaugurated in 1965 under the Franco regime. This “commemoration” by the conciliar media apparatus serves only to mask the radical apostasy of the post-conciliar hierarchy which has formally repudiated the very Social Kingship of Christ that the monument was built to proclaim.
The Theological Vacuum of Conciliar Commemoration
The cited article reads as a sterile historical chronicle, devoid of the sensus catholicus that must animate any true reflection on the rights of Christ the King. It recounts the externals—dates, names, sculptural groups—while maintaining a studied silence on the doctrinal war that the Cerro de los Ángeles embodies. The monument was not mere “heritage”; it was the coram populo affirmation of the doctrine defined by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925): “His reign extends not only to Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ”. The conciliar sect, whose mouthpiece is EWTN, has officially abandoned this doctrine through the heresy of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae) and the practical atheism of its interreligious dialogue. To commemorate the victim of 1936 while serving the executioners of 1965 and beyond is the height of Pharisaical hypocrisy: “You build the tombs of the prophets… but you are the sons of them that killed the prophets” (Mt 23:29-31).
The 1919 Consecration vs. The Conciliar Apostasy
The article quotes the formula of consecration pronounced by Alfonso XIII: “Reign in the hearts of men, in the bosom of our homes, in the minds of the wise, in the halls of science and letters, and in our laws and national institutions.” This is the integral Catholic regnum Christi, the Kingship of Christ over society condemned as “integrism” by the Modernists. The Syllabus of Pius IX anathematizes the very principles the conciliar sect now enshrines: Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”; Error 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State”. The “reconstruction” inaugurated in 1965—coinciding with the closing of Vatican II—stands as an architectural lie. The statue was rebuilt, but the Catholic State that sustained it had been surrendered to laicism by the very hierarchy that blessed the new cornerstone. Pius XI warned: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed” (Quas Primas). The conciliar “bishops” who preside over the site today are the gravediggers of that authority.
The Mock Trial of 1936 and the Auto-Demolition of the Church
The article describes the militiamen staging a “mock summary trial of Jesus”, shouting “Aim with hatred! Fire with rage!” before dynamiting the image and dragging the Head behind a horse. This diabolical hatred is the logical terminus of the Revolution. But the greater scandal is the auto-demolition executed by the conciliar “clergy” after 1958. The militiamen destroyed stone; the Modernists destroyed the Faith. St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemned the Modernist proposition that “Christ did not intend to establish the Church as a community lasting for centuries on earth” (Prop. 52) and that “Dogmas… are merely modes of explanation and stages in the evolution of Christian consciousness” (Prop. 54). The “Mass of reparation” offered by General Varela’s chaplain in 1936 was a true act of reparatio for an offense against the Majestas Dei. Today, the conciliar “sanctuary” on the same hill hosts the Novus Ordo service—a protestantized memorial meal that denies the Propitiatory Sacrifice—and the “bishops” of the Spanish “episcopate” collaborate with the socialist government that exhumed Franco and seeks to erase the Cruzada from memory. They have made a “covenant with death, and a pact with hell” (Is 28:15).
The “Reconstruction” as Hollow Stagecraft
The article notes the new monument (1965) and the rock-hewn sanctuary (1975). This timeline is theologically damning. The reconstruction began in 1944, under the Catholic confessional State. But its completion and the inauguration of the sanctuary occurred deep in the conciliar winter, under Paul VI and the Spanish hierarchy that embraced aggiornamento. The sculptural groups—”Missionary Spain” (with the “St.” Junípero Serra, canonized by the apostate Bergoglio in 2015), “Spain: Defender of the Faith” (with the “Blessed” Anselmo Polanco, beatified by the heretic Wojtyła in 1995)—are idols of the new religion. They drape the conciliar sect’s false saints in the mantle of Catholic Spain. The ruins of the original monument are preserved “on the other side of the esplanade”—a perfect metaphor: the true Faith is relegated to a museum piece, while the neo-church occupies the sanctuary. “They have made the house of my Father a house of merchandise” (Jn 2:16); worse, a house of idolatry.
Conciliar “Saints” and the Corruption of the Calendar
The article casually references “St. Junípero Serra” and “Blessed Anselmo Polanco”. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, no canonization or beatification post-1958 possesses infallible certainty, and many—like Serra, Kolbe, the Ulma family, Newman, Faustina Kowalska, Wojtyła—are manifestly invalid, erected by usurpers (John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, Leo XIV) who, as manifest heretics, lost their office ipso facto (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice; Canon 188.4; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio). The “sanctity” paraded at Cerro de los Ángeles is the sanctity of the counter-church, a simulacrum designed to legitimize the novus ordo hierarchy. The inclusion of Columbus, Cortés, and Isabella the Catholic in the “Missionary Spain” group is a cynical instrumentalization of Catholic heroes by a sect that apologizes for the Conquista and promotes indigenism and pachamama worship.
EWTN as Propaganda Organ of the Neo-Church
The source, EWTN News / ACI Prensa, is a primary instrument of the conciliar establishment. Founded by the “Fr.” Mother Angelica (a post-conciliar religious), it functions to pacify conservative Catholics by feeding them safe narratives—martyrs of the past, “traditional” devotions, “pro-life” activism—while rigorously excluding the sedevacantist truth: that the See of Peter is vacant, the Novus Ordo is a cena haeretica, and the “hierarchy” are automatic excommunicates for heresy. The article’s related links—“Pope Leo XIV’s connection to Spanish Civil War”, “Spanish bishops condemn mockery of Sacred Heart”—confirm the agenda: legitimize the usurper Prevost (Leo XIV) and the false “bishops” as the heirs of the martyrs. They are not. “He who is not with me is against me” (Mt 12:30). The true heirs of the Cruzada and the consecration of 1919 are those who hold the integral Faith without admixture, reject the conciliar sect in toto, and await the restoration of the Regnum Christi by a true Pope. “The Lord will not abandon his people” (Ps 93:14), but He will scourge the impostors who occupy His sanctuary. Viva Cristo Rey!
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Aug. 7 marks 90th anniversary of Spanish ‘execution’ of Sacred Heart of Jesus statue (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 07.08.2026