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
- 1896: The Rufus Buck Gang, heaven-dream't
- 1681: Archbishop Oliver Plunkett, the last Catholic martyr in Great Britain
- 1555: John Bradford, in the grace of God
- 1819: Neyonibe and Naugechek
- 1413: Pierre des Essarts
- 1943: Willem Arondeus, gay resistance fighter
- 2010: Michael Perry, Herzog subject
- 1569: Three Huguenot Parisians
- 1346: Simon Pouillet
- 1947: The avatar of Doctor Wonder
- 1766: Jean-François de la Barre, freethinker martyr