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Post by maximian on Mar 25, 2024 16:30:17 GMT
Hello, I spend about half the year in San Sebastian (Donostia), Guipuzcoa, Spain. I am trying to form a Rosary Group to pray for the return of the Tridentine Mass to the altars of that once very Catholic city.
Please get in touch if you are in any way connected with San Sebastian or the Province of Guipuzcoa.
Thanks
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Post by homeschooldad on Mar 25, 2024 16:35:07 GMT
Hello, I spend about half the year in San Sebastian (Donostia), Guipuzcoa, Spain. I am trying to form a Rosary Group to pray for the return of the Tridentine Mass to the altars of that once very Catholic city. Please get in touch if you are in any way connected with San Sebastian or the Province of Guipuzcoa. Thanks Spain is on my "bucket list", a place I've somehow never managed to visit. My interest has been piqued (not "peaked", a common mistake) by numerous excursions via Google Street View, and I've found Spain and Portugal to be the cleanest, sunniest, most cheerful-looking places in Europe, Lisbon looks like a smaller San Francisco. I have a passable command of Spanish, so there would be no language barrier, but as for Basque, I wouldn't have a clue. I supposedly have a trace of distant Basque ancestry on my mother's side. I only learned this via AncestryDNA, I would never have known otherwise. (23andMe also turned up just a dash of West African, possibly Senegalese, that, too, I had no clue.) |
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Post by iagosan on Mar 26, 2024 11:48:03 GMT
Hello, I spend about half the year in San Sebastian (Donostia), Guipuzcoa, Spain. I am trying to form a Rosary Group to pray for the return of the Tridentine Mass to the altars of that once very Catholic city. Please get in touch if you are in any way connected with San Sebastian or the Province of Guipuzcoa. Thanks Spain is on my "bucket list", a place I've somehow never managed to visit. My interest has been piqued (not "peaked", a common mistake) by numerous excursions via Google Street View, and I've found Spain and Portugal to be the cleanest, sunniest, most cheerful-looking places in Europe, Lisbon looks like a smaller San Francisco. I have a passable command of Spanish, so there would be no language barrier, but as for Basque, I wouldn't have a clue. I supposedly have a trace of distant Basque ancestry on my mother's side. I only learned this via AncestryDNA, I would never have known otherwise. (23andMe also turned up just a dash of West African, possibly Senegalese, that, too, I had no clue.)
You lucky, lucky man! San Sebastian was my first experience of Spain and where many, many years ago I spent some of the happiest days of my life, so far. I lived for a short while in Rentería and also used to love visiting Honderrabia (where I once suffered horrendous sunburn on my back) I frequently took "El Topo" into the city and loved going out to Isla Santa Clara and exploring the old town and eating pinchos. It truly is the capital of Spanish sea food gastronomy!! Incidentally, I wonder if you are aware of the ruined British war cemetery on the seaward side of Monte Urgull? It dates from the Penninsular War and the graves were in a very bad state when I was last there, over 20 years ago.
Sadly, we no longer have connections in Guipuzcoa and I am not able to offer any assistance in your very worthwhile endeavor. May I suggest that you contact Instituto de Cristo Rey Sumo Sacerdote in Madrid as they may be able to assist with contacts in the area who may wish to join ?
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Post by maximian on Mar 26, 2024 18:34:11 GMT
I do indeed know about the British war cemetery on Monte Urgull, because my in laws live at the foot of it.
However it has nothing to do with the Peninsula War. Im afraid its rather a disgraceful episode, in which the illegitimate Liberal government paid for British volunteers to help pit down the gallant Carlist uprising of the 1830s. These were the forerunners of the godless International Brigades 100 years later.
I have written to all the traditionalist groups in Spain.
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Post by iagosan on Mar 27, 2024 6:27:52 GMT
I do indeed know about the British war cemetery on Monte Urgull, because my in laws live at the foot of it. However it has nothing to do with the Peninsula War. Im afraid its rather a disgraceful episode, in which the illegitimate Liberal government paid for British volunteers to help pit down the gallant Carlist uprising of the 1830s. These were the forerunners of the godless International Brigades 100 years later. I have written to all the traditionalist groups in Spain.
"These were the forerunners of the godless International Brigades 100 years later." Talking of which, you probably know the book "Mine were of Trouble" is momentarily back in print. If you do not know this account, it is well worth obtaining a copy. A great (and rarely heard) account of the war. An engrossing read!
www.amazon.com/Mine-Were-Trouble-Nationalist-Account/product-reviews/B08673MBF1/ |
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