Clero vasco y nacionalismodel exilio al liderazgo de la emigración (1900-1940)
- 1 Euskal Herrio Uniberstitatea
ISSN: 1514-0032, 1851-9504
Year of publication: 1999
Issue: 3
Pages: 159-176
Type: Article
More publications in: Prohistoria: historia, políticas de la historia
Abstract
The reaction of the hierarchy against the growing spread of Basque nationalism within the Basque Catholic Church during the first decades of 20th century generated a current of Basque priests being exiled for their ideology. America was their principal destination, as it was quite usual since the Carlists Wars. At the beginning, self-exiles were isolated; after 1910, the attacks became much stronger and the emigration movement increased even more. It was with the Spanish Civil war that this movement reached the top. The participation of these priests in the process of expanding the nationalism in the Basque colonies of America was essential; and their help was also very useful for the emigrants who left Basque Country until the 1936-1939 War.