The Catholic processions in spain today, exemplified for 10 straight days during semana santa, is a glorious public expression of the Roman catholic and apostolic faith.
Thanks I appreciate that comment I'm from there and I'm a " cofrade". You should visit Zaragoza during Holy week because is absolutely magnificent and special. A city with so many cofradías and there they commemorate Holy week in a different way than in the south of Spain. I love there Al so but Zaragoza wins in terms of the feeling you get.
Please don’t equate the “processions” with being Catholic. It’s also civil propaganda to show and display Spanish pride. After Irving there for studies and return every three years for gatherings, you chat with your average Pilar or Jose in a plaza and they will tell you it’s showing off their Spanish-ness or as people told. E in Madrid that the Madrid government uses the processions for touristic attractions. I was a student in Barcelona 1991-1992 twenty years later I discovered most parishes and confradias will say they can’t be bothered with organizing something that might be successful.
Thank you, Sir for your comments. Fifty years ago, my family lived in Germany and we learned factual European history - not the American mythology. After returning to the USA, trying to explain the facts of the crusades, the inquisition, the reconquest of Spain, etc. it was quickly realized that the American people have been (& continue to be) lied to and, refuse to hear the facts. Few people are aware that the Church (specifically, the Jesuits) developed civil rights to protect the native Americans. All of this goes against the obscene narrative of the modernists. Thanks again for your efforts. Pax
England used propaganda on Spain. The people that came to the America's bought it. The western 🇺🇸 was new Spain. There was a war, the Spanish American war.
We are not Latin-Americans or Latinos. Latins lived in region of Lasio, roman rmpire, and they spoke latin. We are Hispanics, heirs of hispanic culture; language and religion
The largest linguistic group in worldwide Catholicism is Spanish. This is due to the great evangelical effort worldwide on the part of Spain. Phillipines is the only Catholic nation in Asia and that is due to Spain.
France took the side of the Protestants in the Peace of Westphalia, because Spain and Austria (the Hapsburgs) were her rivals. The French monarchy sold out the Catholic Church.
@@JuanJose-kt9oe típico de los franceses (políticamente hablando) su "razón de estado" es literalmente lo que más daño le ha hecho a europa en especial a sus vecinos (europa occidental). Son chauvinistas hasta la médula.
Great video Gregory I am from Ecuador of basque descent. I can tell you we traditional Catholics are being called up to defend the faith like my basques cavalry ancestors did in history. Our weapons today is The Holy Cross the Holy Rosary and the traditional Latin mass and truth. The reconquista of Europe begins. Many blessings to you and your family and your channel God Bless
The same can be said about Portugal: isolated geographically from the rest of Europe, hundreds of years of fights against the muslim moors, the excitement about the Discoveries all across the seas and oceans and also a deep Marian devotion from both the Portuguese people and their royalty. Not surprisingly, centuries later, the Blessed Virgin would appear in Fátima, Portugal - the most famous Marian apparition of all.
In Lebanon we have many pilgrimage sites. The vast majority of them are Eastern Catholic since over 70% are members of Maronite, Melkite, Armenian, Syriac and Chaldean Catholic. There is a very small number Roman Catholics but they form 1% of all Christians.
Spain 🇪🇸 sent priests to The Philippines 🇵🇭, which was not united and was mostly Muslim ☪️ and animist. Hardly any Filipinos knew Christianity ✝️ then. Now, Spain is less Christian ✝️, even less Catholic while The Philippines 🇵🇭 sends many priests around the world 🌎 Odd quasi reversal. I was in The Philippines 🇵🇭 in 2022. The Catholic churches ⛪ there are 3/4 full on weekdays! 🤯 Spain 🇪🇸 cannot get that much attendance in churches on a Sunday! 😖 The Philippines 🇵🇭 was named after Philip 2.
Well in Spain catholic priests and nuns allied with the Franco regime and was terribly abusive during the 20th century. It turned me and many away from the Church. It took me 50 years to go back. I grieve the many losses that distance from Chist brought to my life. Thank God He kept calling me and finally after much therapy, i was able to hear His call.
@@SouLightness Lamento que haya tenido mal testimonio los curas y monjas y que no tuvieron caridad cristiana con sus alumnos. La Iglesia Católica se alió con Franco por las persecuciones y las matanzas de católicos antes y durante la guerra civil española. Ya en aquellos tiempos estaba la amenaza comunista y el odio hacia la fe católica. En mi país México tuvimos una persecución y hubo mártires en los años 20 y 30. Dios te bendiga y la Virgen te cubra con su manto.
Extremely reassuring to hear this type of message in english language from an english cultural realm. My compliments. 2 short footnotes: 1)If Spain is today a catholic waistland is greatly due to the constant (violent or veiled) 3 centuries siege from protestants and francmasons (loud echoes from the anglosaxon world... sorry) and evetually through the Vatican Council ll and the destruction of the catholic-cemented regime established after the Civil War against comunism (and not only). 2) The key role in maintaining the Catholic faith in Spain against all odds (appart of what you rightly pointed out) is the figure of Cardinal Cisneros, who acted a true reform in the Church wich rendered futile any futher changes or traumas for cleansing. Bessings from Spain, Land of Mary for ever.
For my Catholic brothers who, due to language barriers and educational policies, still believe several myths: -The inquisition could not judge the American Indians because they considered them new to the faith. There was only ONE case and the priests were tried. -Museums that show torture machines are fake. Those machines were never used by the inquisition and those museums are actually "fantasy for tourists." -The inquisition was the only court of the time that had torture regulated and assisted at all times by a doctor. -Common criminals used to proclaim heresies and curse with the intention of being judged by the inquisition because at that time the inquisition in Spain was a much "softer" court than ordinary justice. -The Spanish inquisition hardly tried cases of witchcraft. The Spanish priests were based on Aristotelian and classical principles of reason and considered witchcraft mere superstition. -Many executions were mere symbolic procedures. In most cases, the person was not burned and what was burned was his "effigy." The Spaniards of that time were very orderly and EVERYTHING is documented. The processes, the names of the inmates, years, crimes... everything. The inquisition in Spain above all controlled the population of Jewish origin or the new converts who came from Islam. They did this because both in their faiths, they do not see evil in deceiving the Gentiles or the "infidels." In such a way that if you did not control this population (as happened), sooner or later they would create power networks again to overthrow the Christian kingdoms.
Really interesting. Well done. It's great to hear a rational explanation of why these things happened rather than the usual this was good or this was bad that is taught in schools.
The marriage of Ferdinand and Isabel united more than two countries. Isabel was queen of León in addition to being queen of Castile. One can look at her flag to view the coat of arms of both. Ferdinand was king of the Two Sicilies in addition to being king of Aragon.
Keep in mind that the Fernando & Isabella were unifying regions that had different cultures, cuisines, and yes, even different languages. The only unifying theme among all that disparity was Catholicism.
Protestant from Chile, here. I agree with all you're points above, but I think there's one missing piece which further explains why the Protestant Reformation didn't get a foothold in Spain. And that's the person and work of Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436-1517), Franciscan monk, who served as personal confessor in 1492, and then was appointed as Archbishop of Toledo, Primate of Spain, in 1495. He spearheaded ecclesiastical reforms in Spain that raised the academic and moral standards of the Spanish clergy. One of his most famous achievements was his sponsorship of the "Complutensian Polyglot", the first polyglot translation of the Bible (with parallel Greek, Latin and Hebrew columns) so the readers could check the Bible in different languages at the same time. He also sponsored liturgical reforms, based on old Visigothic liturgies. In a way, he led a Catholic Reformation in Spain before the Tridentine Reformation. And the latter in many ways, the Tridentine reformation was inspired by Cisneros's reforms. So, by the 1520s the Spanish Church was not the disorganised, ignorant and morally lax church that was present in Luther's Germany. Luther wanted a moral reform, not just a theological one.
@@Roxasguy13 I would summarise it by saying that I'm a Protestant because I have been persuaded by the claims of historic Protestantism. This is, that while Church tradition and Church father writings are of importance to the church, their authority doesn't go above the inspired Sacred Scriptures. They must submit to the Word of God. I understand this if a channel of (Roman) Catholic Apologetics, and I wouldn't start a discussion about it, evenmore because this is a comment thread on a video about 15-16th Century Spain. But that's in a nutshell what I would say about it. God bless
@@franciscoborquezk.155 That is what has caused chaos, the Bible alone doctrine, Jesus established the Church and promised to be with it till end of time “ divine assistance” meaning it can’t go astray on its teachings, it is the Catholic Church that gave the world the Bible. Otherwise for almost first 400 years there was no canon of scripture. The Church has authority and the Bible also has authority. Without the Church there would not be the Bible and without the Church each person will come up with there own interpretation of the scripture and you can get example all over with over 40000 Protestants sects with different beliefs.
@@johnosumba1980 I'd just add that the "Bible alone" (Sola Scriptura) didn't mean for the Reformers that the Church, the Fathers and the Councils didn't have authority. It's only that the Bible has a supreme authority, above all the other. But, like I said in my previous comment, I don't think this is the place to talk about it. I was asked a question, and I respectfully answered. I'll refrain from further comments. God bless
@@franciscoborquezk.155 can you see its effects, otherwise those people were not reformers, you can notice on how they changed the belief, they themselves thought they will be the authority only to realize that they themselves could not sit to agree on any fundamental issue. Scripture itself direct you to the Church as the authority and not on itself.
Meanwhile North America became mainly Protestant, and in natural organic alliance with mainly Protestant Europe - and came to share in the pioneering of the scientific and industrial revolutions in Great Britain, along with Germany, Netherlands, France etc., and ultimately became the mainstem of what we now consider "the West" that continues to dominate the globe cf. the Hispanosphere in general
Thanks for your contribution! If anyone is interested in this period and the lives of Charles V and his son Philips II Geoffrey Parker and Henry Kamen are highly recommended. For the Life of Isabel of Castille/the Catholic 'Isabella - The Warrior Queen' (by K. Downley) or 'Isabella Of Castille' (by G. Tremlett) are very good more recent english-language biographies. The importance of Spain (whatever it's shortcomings or sins) for protecting the faith in the sixteenth century can not be overestimated.
Outstanding comments concerning the Inquisition. The facts you point out are telling as to the reason for the inquisition. The fear of the Spanish and Portuguese about the phony Catholic converts has never been spelled out in the US. The Protestant reformation is another problem. Forget Luther or Calvin. When the King of England splits from Rome and assigns himself as the new Head of the Church of England because he not letting the Pope to grans an annulment to marry another woman. The behavior of the king was a real problem.
Whenever the Spaniards are protrayed in film or plays , I remind my Children that the "Spaniards are always the good guys not the English". The Barbarians of the North embraced heresy because they were never civilized under Rome and craved the looting of the Church. Carlos V and Philip II should be under considreration for Sainthood both retired to a monestary. Spain will recover it patrimony with prayer.
Great video, I visited Spain as a teenager at the end of the Franco era, I was impressed with how clean the cities were and how we felt safe walking in Marbella and Malaga at night.
Great video! Little semantic thingy: no such thing as "The Inquisition". We should rather speak of "an inquisition" as in "an inquiry" into the specifics of a case. Any cleric could become an inquisidor, but no such thing as a "grand inquisitor" as popular imagination would have us believe.
Even though my father is from Venezuela and our family descends from the basque and canary islanders, I've learned very little about Spanish history. Any recommendations on where to start learning about this?
Haven’t seen the video yet but like all your work it quick fun and to the point. Maybe you or someone can answer. I am looking for sources a book about William Tyndale ( Protestant Saint of they had one). Does anyone have any good references?
Viewed from a political perspective the goal of the Spanish Kings and of the German Princes who accepted the Protestant Reformation were quite similar: One state, one ruler, one religion. In Spain the Bishops were subjects of the crown, in Germany they were Princes and peers of the other rulers. The bishops of three dioceses were as Prince-Electors of the top tier of nobility who decided who will become the next king/emperor. Every German diocese had a territory ruled by the bishop as monarch, the Vatican being the only one still existing. The Avignon Popes established, that the next bishop had to pay the the taxes of several years of that territories to the papal court. Usually that was not a problem, because when a bishop died, the money was in the coffers. That failed when Uriel von Gemmingen, Bishop of Mainz died after a few years and the coffers were still empty. Neither the diocese nor a candidate for becoming bishop were able to pay, threatening sedisvacancy. The solution to get the money by indulgence stirred anger which contributed to Luther's popularity. But I think finally the success of the Reformation in Germany depended on princes who used the opportunity to consolidate power by becoming head of their local church.
What is unChristian is Churchill taking food from from Bangladesh areas of the colony of India to feed his troops in World War II, but causing mass starvation as a result.
Spanish Catholicism is one of the finest! All the art and architecture, the orocessions, thev fervor, the music...all to the Glory og God, It's so sad to see what is happening there now.
@@valentinr.dominguez2892 No, el reino de Asturias es como se conocía en la Edad Media, mucho después de la Batalla de Covadonga. Antes, los romanos llamaban a todo el norte montañoso Cantabria.
Españoles y portugueses tenían permiso del Papa de venir américa los demás amaron a Lutero porque era hora de venir América sin permiso. Analizarlo. Amazing work man.
Thank you. Two questions: how did shifts in government affect Northern Europe’s turn towards Protestantism? How did the infusion of gold from the New World and the delay of industrialization in Spain affect its religious and political conservatism? Potential thesis: Roman Catholicism works best in a strong, stable, rich monarchy. Protestantism favors a decentralized government and economy. I would be very interested in your opinions and observations. Thanks!
How did you trace your ancestry back to Spain & the napoleonic times ? As someone who’s parents and grandparents are from Colombia but ethnically European, I’d like to figure out at what point we got to Colombia
Mestizaje was fundamental to Spanish culture. lf you haven't figured this out yet you still need more investigations into your Hispanic past.@@5MinuteCatholicApologetics
Thank you, I learned something new again. I love Spain. I live in Portugal, about 170km from the border and I should go there more often. It is true, the secularisation here in Europe is off the charts. I did not know about the prohibition of praying the rosary in public though 😢 . Maybe not all is lost because I did spend 3 months in Burgos a few years back and the city is very dedicated towards the camino pilgrims that go through there. And (at least) in Andalusia the Catholic/saint holidays are seriously celebrated. They are not just days off. In contrast: here in Portugal(the Algarve) Christianity does seem to have disappeared. And regarding my home country, the Netherlands, Christianity didn't just disappear, they have fully embraced a false god: woke.
Spanish were worried with Moors rather than with Protestants. Same situation happened in Italy, they were suffering attacks from Muslims. Spanish have defeated Muslims and have recovered their lands, so they know that Protestantism was not the right option. If the North of Europe had suffered from Muslims attacks, for sure they never could have thought in Protestantism.
11:54 "It never went after Protestants" ... wrong. Some of the guys burned were Crypto-Jews, but some also were "Luteranos" which in fact means Calvinists. The criterium for being prosecutable was valid Baptism. A Protestant who had grown up Catholic obviously had that. In some parts they decided not to prosecute cradle Anabaptists ... because their Baptism was invalid. I think this was the case in parts f the Balkans, for instance.
By their fruits you will know them: not to forget that Saint James the Great is the Saint Patron of Spain, who in great humility ventured to the margins of the Roman Empire, and unbeknownst to him (but not to the Holy Spirit, duh!) planted the seed of the spreading of the Word in the New World. Boanerges' fierce nature is not only a great fit for the Spanish folk, but wouldn't have it with any nonsense, be it Islam or Protestantism.
@@maurizioantoniovetrugno7150 Look at what happened with Galileo. You can also find plenty of keyboard warriors that will call you a heretic for disagreeing with the Papacy and/or it's decrees.
10:24 Reglas para sentir con la Iglesia ortodoxa. ... have confidence in office and person of the Pope. The Greek Orthodox would more typically be called Fotianos. (Photius died in Communion with the Pope, so Cerularianos would be more approropriate).
3:30 Inversely, Spanish heresies were not spreading to mainland continent. Alumbrados. Do you think Pentecostals are closer to Luteranos or to Alumbrados?
Maybe you could do something for both? Each schism certainly separated for entirely different matters. I myself am curious of your thoughts on how to heal them and restore Latin Christendom.
"Rome" did not fall in the 5th Century per Gibbons. It continúed on untill Napoleón sacked Rome and confirmed the humanistic elightenment brewing since the Renaissance. Spain was the last great remnant and direct descendent of that Empire of Román Culture. The Church May be universal but It IS first Román. Catholics need to come home to its Román roots. I am proud to Consider myself an Hispanic despite my French Ancestory. Spain ruled Louisiana and gave my family a land grant. I am an Hispánico. Unlike the prots Who have ruled the USA....It IS not about RACE but Román Catholic Culture
@@valentinr.dominguez2892 Or of Catholic Queen Mary persecuting Protestants. The Wars of Religion across Europe were horrific. The Spanish Inquisition was also an attack of the elite upon the nation's own people to enforce cultural conformity. It's so nice to have freedom of choice today.
@@stephenbailey9969 La Leyenda Negra española fue propaganda de guerra de las naciones protestantes contra una España que no podían derrotar en el campo de batalla en los siglo XVI y XVII . Sus calumnias y difamaciones están totalmente refutadas por historiadores serios. Pero permanecen en la mentalidad colectiva porque los Medios de Desinformación Masiva las difunden ya que siguen siendo funcionales a determinados intereses geopoliticos anglosajones y de dominio de la Oligarquía plutocratica financiera globalista. Ningún historiador actual sostiene la Leyenda Negra. La Leyenda Negra consiste en ocultar o minimizar las cosas buenas que tuvo el Imperio español (y tuvo muchas) y agigantar las cosas malas ( que naturalmente también tuvo algunas ). Le recomiendo la lectura de "Imperiofobia y Leyenda Negra" de Maria Elvira Roca Barea. Tal vez esté traducido al inglés porque ha sido un best-seller.
I love it when you Catholic guys throw the term "heretic" around! It reminds me of how different we are than Islam, which throws the term "infidel" around a lot!
I'm sorry, I believe you meant to say « 4 reasons why Spain remained true to the papal corruption and belief that you can BUY salvation with money, even though Jesus said blatantly that "It's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God" » 👍👍 You need to double check your titles before posting them online 🤦🤦
Maybe because Portuguese are western Spaniards who preferred to ally with a Protestant power that persecuted Catholics like England rather than being a little coherent with their Faith? Maybe?
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. This verse alone calls the council of Ephesus, blasphemers for calling Mary the mother of God. Clearly states Jesus is the Son of God. I'm Pentecostal I do not follow, Luther or Calvin. I test all doctrine Biblically! The same Bible edited by Catholics! E. G. Rosaries are not in the Bible. Which means not important. Jesus & Apostles did not pray to Mary. Do you think I will pray to Mary? Nope! No Biblical Precedence! Just someone's imagination on over drive.
Like the video and post a comment. I would love to hear from you.
Believing the Bible is NOT heresy
The Catholic processions in spain today, exemplified for 10 straight days during semana santa, is a glorious public expression of the Roman catholic and apostolic faith.
no doubt. my small town here is doing a corpus christi procession in downtown. God bless the pastors for this public testimony
Have you checked the procesions in Guatemala? They are just as great as the ones in Spain
Thanks I appreciate that comment I'm from there and I'm a " cofrade".
You should visit Zaragoza during Holy week because is absolutely magnificent and special. A city with so many cofradías and there they commemorate Holy week in a different way than in the south of Spain. I love there Al so but Zaragoza wins in terms of the feeling you get.
Guatemala's Semana Santa is considered a World Heritage.
Please don’t equate the “processions” with being Catholic. It’s also civil propaganda to show and display Spanish pride. After
Irving there for studies and return every three years for gatherings, you chat with your average Pilar or Jose in a plaza and they will tell you it’s showing off their Spanish-ness or as people told. E in Madrid that the Madrid government uses the processions for touristic attractions. I was a student in Barcelona 1991-1992 twenty years later I discovered most parishes and confradias will say they can’t be bothered with organizing something that might be successful.
Thank you, Sir for your comments. Fifty years ago, my family lived in Germany and we learned factual European history - not the American mythology. After returning to the USA, trying to explain the facts of the crusades, the inquisition, the reconquest of Spain, etc. it was quickly realized that the American people have been (& continue to be) lied to and, refuse to hear the facts. Few people are aware that the Church (specifically, the Jesuits) developed civil rights to protect the native Americans. All of this goes against the obscene narrative of the modernists. Thanks again for your efforts. Pax
The Black Legend hit hard!
Whig history is the culprit.
England used propaganda on Spain. The people that came to the America's bought it. The western 🇺🇸 was new Spain. There was a war, the Spanish American war.
Obscene Secular Atheist Anarchy Chaos Disorder Fomentation and Groups of Ill Informed Religionists.
@ Jeffrey sharp. U are correct in what u write, in the u.s. there is too dang much modernism, and not enough of Catholic prayers
As a Latin American I cannot say it clearly nor loudly enough: God Bless Spain! Viva Cristo Rey!
Amen 🙏🙏🙏
Amen🙏🙏🙏🙏
We are not Latin-Americans or Latinos. Latins lived in region of Lasio, roman rmpire, and they spoke latin. We are Hispanics, heirs of hispanic culture; language and religion
@@waxwaine I'm still glad you understood what I was trying to convey. Virtual communication is not my cup of chai.
Gracias e igualmente qué Dios te bwndiga a ti y a tú país 🙏🏽 saludos de alguien de 🇪🇸
The largest linguistic group in worldwide Catholicism is Spanish. This is due to the great evangelical effort worldwide on the part of Spain. Phillipines is the only Catholic nation in Asia and that is due to Spain.
France took the side of the Protestants in the Peace of Westphalia, because Spain and Austria (the Hapsburgs) were her rivals. The French monarchy sold out the Catholic Church.
También se puso del lado de los otomanos en Lepanto
@@JuanJose-kt9oe típico de los franceses (políticamente hablando) su "razón de estado" es literalmente lo que más daño le ha hecho a europa en especial a sus vecinos (europa occidental). Son chauvinistas hasta la médula.
Amen !
Even as a Protestant, that is dirty.
Great video Gregory I am from Ecuador of basque descent. I can tell you we traditional Catholics are being called up to defend the faith like my basques cavalry ancestors did in history. Our weapons today is The Holy Cross the Holy Rosary and the traditional Latin mass and truth. The reconquista of Europe begins. Many blessings to you and your family and your channel God Bless
Y por aquí de Guayaquil Ecuador, tierra brava e ingrata jaja
@@randomsudaka2631 Bravo ! Amen !
May God give you the graces to achieve victory!
The same can be said about Portugal: isolated geographically from the rest of Europe, hundreds of years of fights against the muslim moors, the excitement about the Discoveries all across the seas and oceans and also a deep Marian devotion from both the Portuguese people and their royalty. Not surprisingly, centuries later, the Blessed Virgin would appear in Fátima, Portugal - the most famous Marian apparition of all.
The very first Marian apparition of the entire church is the Virgen of the Pillar in Zaragoza, Spain.
I mean, Portugal is west Spain, so it is understood included in the video.
@@roderik3059 funny guy hahahaha Dom Afonso Henriques, our Portuguese language and Brazil would be differ. 😅😁
@@marciorocha2781 Even Brazilians joke about how they understand us better than they understand you.
Guadalupe was the most famous and popular. In modern times maybe Fatima but overall is Guadalupe.
In Lebanon we have many pilgrimage sites. The vast majority of them are Eastern Catholic since over 70% are members of Maronite, Melkite, Armenian, Syriac and Chaldean Catholic. There is a very small number Roman Catholics but they form 1% of all Christians.
Isabel La Católica was the key. She, after Marie, was the greatest woman in history
Spain 🇪🇸 sent priests to The Philippines 🇵🇭, which was not united and was mostly Muslim ☪️ and animist. Hardly any Filipinos knew Christianity ✝️ then.
Now, Spain is less Christian ✝️, even less Catholic while The Philippines 🇵🇭 sends many priests around the world 🌎 Odd quasi reversal. I was in The Philippines 🇵🇭 in 2022. The Catholic churches ⛪ there are 3/4 full on weekdays! 🤯 Spain 🇪🇸 cannot get that much attendance in churches on a Sunday! 😖
The Philippines 🇵🇭 was named after Philip 2.
God's Providence may always bless you my brothers! 🙌🏾❤️
Well in Spain catholic priests and nuns allied with the Franco regime and was terribly abusive during the 20th century. It turned me and many away from the Church. It took me 50 years to go back. I grieve the many losses that distance from Chist brought to my life. Thank God He kept calling me and finally after much therapy, i was able to hear His call.
@@SouLightness Lamento que haya tenido mal testimonio los curas y monjas y que no tuvieron caridad cristiana con sus alumnos. La Iglesia Católica se alió con Franco por las persecuciones y las matanzas de católicos antes y durante la guerra civil española. Ya en aquellos tiempos estaba la amenaza comunista y el odio hacia la fe católica. En mi país México tuvimos una persecución y hubo mártires en los años 20 y 30. Dios te bendiga y la Virgen te cubra con su manto.
Extremely reassuring to hear this type of message in english language from an english cultural realm.
My compliments.
2 short footnotes:
1)If Spain is today a catholic waistland is greatly due to the constant (violent or veiled) 3 centuries siege from protestants and francmasons (loud echoes from the anglosaxon world... sorry) and evetually through the Vatican Council ll and the destruction of the catholic-cemented regime established after the Civil War against comunism (and not only).
2) The key role in maintaining the Catholic faith in Spain against all odds (appart of what you rightly pointed out) is the figure of Cardinal Cisneros, who acted a true reform in the Church wich rendered futile any futher changes or traumas for cleansing.
Bessings from Spain, Land of Mary for ever.
Santa Teresa de Ávila is the first female Doctor of the church.
For my Catholic brothers who, due to language barriers and educational policies, still believe several myths:
-The inquisition could not judge the American Indians because they considered them new to the faith. There was only ONE case and the priests were tried.
-Museums that show torture machines are fake. Those machines were never used by the inquisition and those museums are actually "fantasy for tourists."
-The inquisition was the only court of the time that had torture regulated and assisted at all times by a doctor.
-Common criminals used to proclaim heresies and curse with the intention of being judged by the inquisition because at that time the inquisition in Spain was a much "softer" court than ordinary justice.
-The Spanish inquisition hardly tried cases of witchcraft. The Spanish priests were based on Aristotelian and classical principles of reason and considered witchcraft mere superstition.
-Many executions were mere symbolic procedures. In most cases, the person was not burned and what was burned was his "effigy."
The Spaniards of that time were very orderly and EVERYTHING is documented. The processes, the names of the inmates, years, crimes... everything.
The inquisition in Spain above all controlled the population of Jewish origin or the new converts who came from Islam. They did this because both in their faiths, they do not see evil in deceiving the Gentiles or the "infidels." In such a way that if you did not control this population (as happened), sooner or later they would create power networks again to overthrow the Christian kingdoms.
Excellent points 👍
Really interesting. Well done. It's great to hear a rational explanation of why these things happened rather than the usual this was good or this was bad that is taught in schools.
The marriage of Ferdinand and Isabel united more than two countries. Isabel was queen of León in addition to being queen of Castile. One can look at her flag to view the coat of arms of both. Ferdinand was king of the Two Sicilies in addition to being king of Aragon.
Very interesting, my man! Keep up the good work!
Keep in mind that the Fernando & Isabella were unifying regions that had different cultures, cuisines, and yes, even different languages. The only unifying theme among all that disparity was Catholicism.
Well done explanation why Spain remained Catholic. May Spain be a traditional Catholic power again.
It is thanks to Spain that Belgium and southern Netherlands is Catholic.
Van camino de ser islámicos
And France. Without Spanish intervention in the French Wars of Religion, France would have become Protestant.
This was a great history lesson, thank you! Subscribing.
Protestant from Chile, here.
I agree with all you're points above, but I think there's one missing piece which further explains why the Protestant Reformation didn't get a foothold in Spain.
And that's the person and work of Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436-1517), Franciscan monk, who served as personal confessor in 1492, and then was appointed as Archbishop of Toledo, Primate of Spain, in 1495.
He spearheaded ecclesiastical reforms in Spain that raised the academic and moral standards of the Spanish clergy. One of his most famous achievements was his sponsorship of the "Complutensian Polyglot", the first polyglot translation of the Bible (with parallel Greek, Latin and Hebrew columns) so the readers could check the Bible in different languages at the same time. He also sponsored liturgical reforms, based on old Visigothic liturgies.
In a way, he led a Catholic Reformation in Spain before the Tridentine Reformation. And the latter in many ways, the Tridentine reformation was inspired by Cisneros's reforms.
So, by the 1520s the Spanish Church was not the disorganised, ignorant and morally lax church that was present in Luther's Germany. Luther wanted a moral reform, not just a theological one.
Just curious, you don't have answer. May I ask why you're Protestant? I want to see your perspective
@@Roxasguy13 I would summarise it by saying that I'm a Protestant because I have been persuaded by the claims of historic Protestantism.
This is, that while Church tradition and Church father writings are of importance to the church, their authority doesn't go above the inspired Sacred Scriptures. They must submit to the Word of God.
I understand this if a channel of (Roman) Catholic Apologetics, and I wouldn't start a discussion about it, evenmore because this is a comment thread on a video about 15-16th Century Spain. But that's in a nutshell what I would say about it.
God bless
@@franciscoborquezk.155 That is what has caused chaos, the Bible alone doctrine, Jesus established the Church and promised to be with it till end of time “ divine assistance” meaning it can’t go astray on its teachings, it is the Catholic Church that gave the world the Bible. Otherwise for almost first 400 years there was no canon of scripture. The Church has authority and the Bible also has authority. Without the Church there would not be the Bible and without the Church each person will come up with there own interpretation of the scripture and you can get example all over with over 40000 Protestants sects with different beliefs.
@@johnosumba1980 I'd just add that the "Bible alone" (Sola Scriptura) didn't mean for the Reformers that the Church, the Fathers and the Councils didn't have authority. It's only that the Bible has a supreme authority, above all the other.
But, like I said in my previous comment, I don't think this is the place to talk about it.
I was asked a question, and I respectfully answered. I'll refrain from further comments.
God bless
@@franciscoborquezk.155 can you see its effects, otherwise those people were not reformers, you can notice on how they changed the belief, they themselves thought they will be the authority only to realize that they themselves could not sit to agree on any fundamental issue. Scripture itself direct you to the Church as the authority and not on itself.
Interesting fact of the Faith being preserved in Spain to enable the Evangelization of the New World. California might have been a different place.
Meanwhile North America became mainly Protestant, and in natural organic alliance with mainly Protestant Europe - and came to share in the pioneering of the scientific and industrial revolutions in Great Britain, along with Germany, Netherlands, France etc., and ultimately became the mainstem of what we now consider "the West" that continues to dominate the globe cf. the Hispanosphere in general
Great video, brother! You gained another subbed. Greetings from Brazil
Thanks for your contribution! If anyone is interested in this period and the lives of Charles V and his son Philips II Geoffrey Parker and Henry Kamen are highly recommended. For the Life of Isabel of Castille/the Catholic 'Isabella - The Warrior Queen' (by K. Downley) or 'Isabella Of Castille' (by G. Tremlett) are very good more recent english-language biographies. The importance of Spain (whatever it's shortcomings or sins) for protecting the faith in the sixteenth century can not be overestimated.
So much to chew on in this video. Thanks and great job.
Outstanding comments concerning the Inquisition. The facts you point out are telling as to the reason for the inquisition. The fear of the Spanish and Portuguese about the phony Catholic converts has never been spelled out in the US. The Protestant reformation is another problem. Forget Luther or Calvin. When the King of England splits from Rome and assigns himself as the new Head of the Church of England because he not letting the Pope to grans an annulment to marry another woman. The behavior of the king was a real problem.
Spain....A great friend of Ireland's during our 9 years war agsinst protestant Elizabethan England....Dublin
Whenever the Spaniards are protrayed in film or plays , I remind my Children that the "Spaniards are always the good guys not the English". The Barbarians of the North embraced heresy because they were never civilized under Rome and craved the looting of the Church. Carlos V and Philip II should be under considreration for Sainthood both retired to a monestary. Spain will recover it patrimony with prayer.
God bless you from Spain❤️✝️🇪🇦
Great video, I visited Spain as a teenager at the end of the Franco era, I was impressed with how clean the cities were and how we felt safe walking in Marbella and Malaga at night.
Great video! Little semantic thingy: no such thing as "The Inquisition". We should rather speak of "an inquisition" as in "an inquiry" into the specifics of a case. Any cleric could become an inquisidor, but no such thing as a "grand inquisitor" as popular imagination would have us believe.
Valeu!
Even though my father is from Venezuela and our family descends from the basque and canary islanders, I've learned very little about Spanish history. Any recommendations on where to start learning about this?
Viva España! Viva la Santa Iglesia Católica! Viva Cristo Rey! Viva la Virgen!
What is unChristian is the English classifying Australian aborigines as fauna.
It was an ethnic/cultural/ historical situation in Europe. But the message resonates. Same for the great schism, same for Protestantism.
Haven’t seen the video yet but like all your work it quick fun and to the point.
Maybe you or someone can answer. I am looking for sources a book about William Tyndale ( Protestant Saint of they had one). Does anyone have any good references?
Would love to hear more of Spain’s Catholic History!!!!
Although I love your apologetics, you could do a whole channel dedicated to just teaching history as well.
What was unChristian were Protestant English monarchs who banned the Catholic mass and persecuted Catholics for centuries.
Was it Christian for the pope to encourage Catholics to assassinate Elizabeth I?
Viewed from a political perspective the goal of the Spanish Kings and of the German Princes who accepted the Protestant Reformation were quite similar: One state, one ruler, one religion. In Spain the Bishops were subjects of the crown, in Germany they were Princes and peers of the other rulers. The bishops of three dioceses were as Prince-Electors of the top tier of nobility who decided who will become the next king/emperor. Every German diocese had a territory ruled by the bishop as monarch, the Vatican being the only one still existing. The Avignon Popes established, that the next bishop had to pay the the taxes of several years of that territories to the papal court. Usually that was not a problem, because when a bishop died, the money was in the coffers. That failed when Uriel von Gemmingen, Bishop of Mainz died after a few years and the coffers were still empty. Neither the diocese nor a candidate for becoming bishop were able to pay, threatening sedisvacancy. The solution to get the money by indulgence stirred anger which contributed to Luther's popularity. But I think finally the success of the Reformation in Germany depended on princes who used the opportunity to consolidate power by becoming head of their local church.
What is unChristian is Churchill taking food from from Bangladesh areas of the colony of India to feed his troops in World War II, but causing mass starvation as a result.
Who controlled the sea in the Bay of Bengal in 1942. Who controlled Burma in 1942..... now how would that effect the famine.
@@ifgfqageneration6939 Just lies by Moscow Central to cover up their Bonapartism in Ukraine
And Stalin carving up Poland with Hitler
Spanish Catholicism is one of the finest! All the art and architecture, the orocessions, thev fervor, the music...all to the Glory og God, It's so sad to see what is happening there now.
We were busy doing the largest evangelization of history
It was Asturias not Cantabria that was the territory that was never occupied by the Moors. Covadonga is in Asturias not Cantabria.
Cantabria es como se conocia históricamente desde los romanos a toda la región bordeada por los montes cántabros.
@@roderik3059 En esa epoca se conocia como el reino de Asturias.
@@valentinr.dominguez2892 No, el reino de Asturias es como se conocía en la Edad Media, mucho después de la Batalla de Covadonga. Antes, los romanos llamaban a todo el norte montañoso Cantabria.
Españoles y portugueses tenían permiso del Papa de venir américa los demás amaron a Lutero porque era hora de venir América sin permiso. Analizarlo. Amazing work man.
Muchas gracias. Católicos siempre.Dios te bendiga hermano.
Un gran abrazo desde España
Southern Europe has been Christian much longer. Charlemagne converted Germany late and by the sword.
Thank you. Two questions: how did shifts in government affect Northern Europe’s turn towards Protestantism? How did the infusion of gold from the New World and the delay of industrialization in Spain affect its religious and political conservatism?
Potential thesis: Roman Catholicism works best in a strong, stable, rich monarchy. Protestantism favors a decentralized government and economy.
I would be very interested in your opinions and observations. Thanks!
Half of the ones you enumerated, 11:13, are unknown to me. John of Avila? John of Alcantara?
How did you trace your ancestry back to Spain & the napoleonic times ? As someone who’s parents and grandparents are from Colombia but ethnically European, I’d like to figure out at what point we got to Colombia
my family left spain in the early 1810s to Mexico. If you are light-skinned your family likely didn't breed much with indigenous
@@5MinuteCatholicApologetics Breed interesting choice of words there... 😆😅
Mestizaje was fundamental to Spanish culture. lf you haven't figured this out yet you still need more investigations into your Hispanic past.@@5MinuteCatholicApologetics
You should try to get an interview with Eduard Hapsburg. He'll tell your viewers a lot about Carlos V / I. I'll bet he'd say yes.
Thank you, I learned something new again. I love Spain. I live in Portugal, about 170km from the border and I should go there more often. It is true, the secularisation here in Europe is off the charts. I did not know about the prohibition of praying the rosary in public though 😢 . Maybe not all is lost because I did spend 3 months in Burgos a few years back and the city is very dedicated towards the camino pilgrims that go through there. And (at least) in Andalusia the Catholic/saint holidays are seriously celebrated. They are not just days off. In contrast: here in Portugal(the Algarve) Christianity does seem to have disappeared. And regarding my home country, the Netherlands, Christianity didn't just disappear, they have fully embraced a false god: woke.
Thank you 🙏🏼
Please don’t confuse Portugal with Spain. South America was almost 50% aportuguese
Spanish were worried with Moors rather than with Protestants. Same situation happened in Italy, they were suffering attacks from Muslims.
Spanish have defeated Muslims and have recovered their lands, so they know that Protestantism was not the right option.
If the North of Europe had suffered from Muslims attacks, for sure they never could have thought in Protestantism.
I liked how you said the prayer in Latin.
11:54 "It never went after Protestants" ... wrong.
Some of the guys burned were Crypto-Jews, but some also were "Luteranos" which in fact means Calvinists.
The criterium for being prosecutable was valid Baptism. A Protestant who had grown up Catholic obviously had that.
In some parts they decided not to prosecute cradle Anabaptists ... because their Baptism was invalid. I think this was the case in parts f the Balkans, for instance.
Fun fact: Linguists agree that Spanish (the kind spoken in Spain proper) is closer to classical Latin than modern Tuscan Italian.
Europe is not a country, but an continent!
España ,Luz de Trento
Cuna de San Ignacio
Martillo de herejes
Espada de Roma...
By their fruits you will know them: not to forget that Saint James the Great is the Saint Patron of Spain, who in great humility ventured to the margins of the Roman Empire, and unbeknownst to him (but not to the Holy Spirit, duh!) planted the seed of the spreading of the Word in the New World. Boanerges' fierce nature is not only a great fit for the Spanish folk, but wouldn't have it with any nonsense, be it Islam or Protestantism.
The same year of the expulsion of the Jews - 1492 - Spain gained an empire.
No one expected the Inquisition - Mel Brooks
Monty Python
@@stephenjohnson7915 Thanks. Blessings.
For Protestants heresy is anything that contradicts the Bible. For Roman Catholics, heresy is anything that contradicts the Pope.
Where did you learn this?
@@maurizioantoniovetrugno7150 Look at what happened with Galileo. You can also find plenty of keyboard warriors that will call you a heretic for disagreeing with the Papacy and/or it's decrees.
PROTESTANTES CONTRADICT THE BIBLE END EACH OTHER.
@@Procopius464that’s no different than Protestants today saying there is no evolution.
I know Baptist’s that say the earth is 4000 years old today.
@@RGTomoenage11 We do not contradict the Bible. Your Pope contradicts the Bible. Look at his most recent 60 minutes interview.
10:24 Reglas para sentir con la Iglesia ortodoxa.
... have confidence in office and person of the Pope.
The Greek Orthodox would more typically be called Fotianos. (Photius died in Communion with the Pope, so Cerularianos would be more approropriate).
,que VIVA ESPAÑA y que viva en saecula saeculorem , una nación de paz y del Catolicismos!
3:30 Inversely, Spanish heresies were not spreading to mainland continent.
Alumbrados. Do you think Pentecostals are closer to Luteranos or to Alumbrados?
12:28 My probably saddest moment on the Camino in 2004 (apart from ladies rejecting me) was hearing Spain was introducing "gay marriage" ...
What is unChristian were the English concentration like camps in its Kenyan colony.
More confirmation that HISD taught me a very Protestant view of history
Thank God Spain was spared!
Do you have a response to the schism? I would like to hear a Roman Catholic view other than we are the Church of St Peter.
I'm sorry. What schism? Orthodox or Anglican?
Maybe you could do something for both? Each schism certainly separated for entirely different matters. I myself am curious of your thoughts on how to heal them and restore Latin Christendom.
My dads family is from Spain, moved to Mexico than Texas trying to figure out how they ended up Protestant, charismatics.
America tends to have that effect on people it's a land of heresies
"Rome" did not fall in the 5th Century per Gibbons. It continúed on untill Napoleón sacked Rome and confirmed the humanistic elightenment brewing since the Renaissance. Spain was the last great remnant and direct descendent of that Empire of Román Culture. The Church May be universal but It IS first Román. Catholics need to come home to its Román roots.
I am proud to Consider myself an Hispanic despite my French Ancestory. Spain ruled Louisiana and gave my family a land grant. I am an Hispánico. Unlike the prots Who have ruled the USA....It IS not about RACE but Román Catholic Culture
Santiago, y cierra España! That pretty much sums it up! 🇻🇦🇪🇸
To quote Monty Python, "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
Monty Puthon did not know of the Protestants persecuting English Catholics.
@@valentinr.dominguez2892 Or of Catholic Queen Mary persecuting Protestants.
The Wars of Religion across Europe were horrific.
The Spanish Inquisition was also an attack of the elite upon the nation's own people to enforce cultural conformity.
It's so nice to have freedom of choice today.
La menos mala fue la española. Lo demás es Leyenda Negra
@@JuanJose-kt9oe Algunas veces, la leyenda es la verdad.
Pero, las otras naciones tenian leyendas malas tambien.
El pecado.
@@stephenbailey9969 La Leyenda Negra española fue propaganda de guerra de las naciones protestantes contra una España que no podían derrotar en el campo de batalla en los siglo XVI y XVII . Sus calumnias y difamaciones están totalmente refutadas por historiadores serios. Pero permanecen en la mentalidad colectiva porque los Medios de Desinformación Masiva las difunden ya que siguen siendo funcionales a determinados intereses geopoliticos anglosajones y de dominio de la Oligarquía plutocratica financiera globalista.
Ningún historiador actual sostiene la Leyenda Negra.
La Leyenda Negra consiste en ocultar o minimizar las cosas buenas que tuvo el Imperio español (y tuvo muchas) y agigantar las cosas malas ( que naturalmente también tuvo algunas ).
Le recomiendo la lectura de "Imperiofobia y Leyenda Negra" de Maria Elvira Roca Barea. Tal vez esté traducido al inglés porque ha sido un best-seller.
They have now
dude, you remind me of an irishman🌺
The Latin American area would probably not be impoverished by idolaters
Ante católico y pobre que hereje y rico e incluso ateo como los paises nórdicos.
I love it when you Catholic guys throw the term "heretic" around!
It reminds me of how different we are than Islam, which throws the term "infidel" around a lot!
at least they're not openly murdering fellow Christians for it anymore
Didn’t happen in Ireland either.
The reformation was not a mistake.
You’re right it was a demonic attack on humanity. A judaized lie inspired by the Devil himself and the synagogue of Satan, his minions.
The reason Spain didn’t fall for the Protestant heresy is because they were so socked in to the Papal heresy.
Exactly, Marg bar Hispania
Lets not use the word heretic when there are not athemas to back it up.
Neither Portugal.
Por Dios, Padre e el Rey
Haven’t listened yet, but the reason is The Inquisition. Make it great again.
La peor Inquisición y persecución religiosa se produjo en los países protestantes. Lo demás es Leyenda Negra
La verdadera razón fue que en España se hizo antes la Reforma con el Cardenal Cisneros
@@JuanJose-kt9oe Yeah, unfortunately Google decided not to give me a translate to English button, so I don’t know what you are saying.
I'm sorry, I believe you meant to say « 4 reasons why Spain remained true to the papal corruption and belief that you can BUY salvation with money, even though Jesus said blatantly that "It's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God" » 👍👍
You need to double check your titles before posting them online 🤦🤦
God bless you.
You are Mexican.
Jesus Christ is the ONLY path to heaven. It is by the blood of Jesus Christ that we are redeemed
Boosting signal
4 Reasons Spain Did Not Fall For The Protestant Heresy. Was one of them that they prefer Catholic heresy?
WHY HAVE YOU CHOSEN TO IGNORE PORTUGAL AND HER DESCENTS IN YOUR VIDEO?
He is not ignoring Portugal. This particular video deals with Spain.
@@valentinr.dominguez2892 Thank you.
Maybe because Portuguese are western Spaniards who preferred to ally with a Protestant power that persecuted Catholics like England rather than being a little coherent with their Faith? Maybe?
Vivat Hispania, Ave Christus Rex.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
This verse alone calls the council of Ephesus, blasphemers for calling Mary the mother of God.
Clearly states Jesus is the Son of God.
I'm Pentecostal I do not follow, Luther or Calvin.
I test all doctrine Biblically!
The same Bible edited by Catholics!
E. G. Rosaries are not in the Bible.
Which means not important.
Jesus & Apostles did not pray to Mary.
Do you think I will pray to Mary?
Nope! No Biblical Precedence!
Just someone's imagination on over drive.
Heresy?,since when actually reading the Bible, follow the doctrine and avoiding idolatry can be considered heresy?
Hispania scutum Fidei.