My name is Francisco Escribano. They accused me of stealing for the men in the mountains two sacks of chickpeas, a blanket, a pair of scissors, six socks, six handkerchiefs and 10 pesetas. For this crime they executed me on 1 July 1941. For that same crime, my father, two uncles and my cousin died with me.
-Actor Javier Bardem voicing a victim of Franco’s Spain, for Pedro Almodovar‘s documentary short. We’ve previously encountered this film in our entry on the very first execution of the Spanish Civil War.
On this day..
- 1523: Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos, the first Lutheran martyrs - 2020
- 1896: The Rufus Buck Gang, heaven-dream't - 2019
- 1681: Archbishop Oliver Plunkett, the last Catholic martyr in Great Britain - 2018
- 1555: John Bradford, in the grace of God - 2016
- 1819: Neyonibe and Naugechek - 2015
- 1413: Pierre des Essarts - 2014
- 1943: Willem Arondeus, gay resistance fighter - 2013
- 2010: Michael Perry, Herzog subject - 2012
- 1569: Three Huguenot Parisians - 2011
- 1346: Simon Pouillet - 2010
- 1947: The avatar of Doctor Wonder - 2009
- 1766: Jean-François de la Barre, freethinker martyr - 2008