From the Spanish Catholic monarchist publication, La Esperanza, we learn that this holy layman, Antonio Tort Reixach, “hid the Bishop of Barcelona, Dr. Manuel Irurita, in his home during the revolution of 1936, and both were martyred together out of hatred for the Faith. Antonio was 41 years old at the time.”
Antonio Tort Reixach (whose name is spelled Reixachs in some sources) was a Carlist, that is, a member of the Catholic legitimist “Traditionalist Communion” whose militia, the Requeté, was so critical to the victory over communist and anarchist forces in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. Besides being monarchists who contended for the legitimate line of the Bourbon dynasty in Spain, the Carlists were Catholic integralists before the name, and proposed a thoroughly Christian worldview in opposition to the freemasonic “enlightenment” principles that ruined Europe. There are a couple of articles on this site concerning Carlism:
- Dios, Patria, Fueros, y Rey: The Story Of The Spanish Carlistas — by Eleonore Villarrubia
- Spanish Carlism: An Introduction — by Professor Miguel Ayuso Torres
The first part of a promised two-part article on the soon-to-be blessed is available in English at the website of La Esperanza. Here are its first three paragraphs:
The Catalan Carlist Antonio Tort Reixach (1895-1936), a jeweler by profession, father of 13 children, and a member of the Traditionalist Communion, will be beatified on Saturday, November 23, 2024, at 11 a.m., at the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, alongside the priest from Sabadell, mossèn Gaietà Clausellas Ballvé (1863-1936), known as “the father of the poor” due to his immense and self-sacrificing work for them.
Both were martyred during the religious persecution unleashed by revolutionary forces against Catholics in 1936, in what the conciliar Church now improperly refers to with the progressive substitute “the Spanish martyrs of the 20th century” [sic].
This politically correct term has not prevented both beatifications from being silenced by the nationalist and socialist Catalan press, as the lives and deaths of these martyrs represent an authentic historical memory that contradicts the false official narrative imposed by current civil and religious authorities. This authority aims to obscure, or even justify, the brutal religious persecution perpetrated against Catalan Catholics by the president of the (misnamed) Generalitat, the Freemason Lluís Companys, of ERC. He established the “Central Committee of Anti-Fascist Militias” on July 21, 1936, made up of communist, anarchist, and ERC militiamen who were armed and authorized to detain, and in practice, execute those arrested.
