Segovia

The scene was so cool.

So we went to a place called Segovia, which I'd never heard of before.

Oh, we haven't even mentioned that, have we? Middle of Spain, flew to Madrid.

And it looks like a fairy tale.

Christ, trying to keep up with you lot.

Then

we go right into Segovia.

Yeah.

You are speaking to me, my son.

I am Fra Pedro despilar, Friar of the Dominicans of Segovia and Grand Inquisitor for all Spain.

Is this the court of the Inquisition?

It is.

Right?

Kind of like, uh, uh, probably, um, I mean, this, this comparison m- might take no sense at all, but it's like in the old aqueducts, like the one that we have here in Segovia, that there are places-

Mm-hmm

... uh, but they are huge place... uh, uh, stones placed one on top of the other.

As many of you know, I just got back last weekend from a pilgrimage of two weeks with parishioners to Spain, all over Spain, and we walked in the footsteps of Saint Ignatius, Saint Teresa of Avila, and Saint John the Cross.

We started out following St. John of the Cross in Segovia and Seville, and beautiful cities, stunning, where John was buried, Segovia.

And then we traveled to the ancient city of Avila, where St. Teresa was born and lived all her life, the beautiful walled city, stunning sight to be seen.

And then we followed our way to Ignatius' Loyola, where he was, as a wounded soldier, returned to his home, and there he had his conversion.

Yes.

Dinner at an expensive Japanese place in Madrid in January, a weekend near Segovia in February, a Spanish island in July.

So these aren't two people who met online and decided to meet up in Thailand.

By the summer of 2023, they've known each other for about a year.

... as seeing the Ili- you know, Troy in the Iliad.

Well, I mean, I remember my, when my wife and I went to Spain and we went to Segovia.

And Segovia, uh, there exists the, they're, they're still standing, and they was usable up until not long ago, but the g- the, an aqueduct that was built in the 1st century.

Yeah.

I mean, the 1st century.

When Ignatius had finished his account, Figueroa and the notary departed after writing down what had taken place.

Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from Segovia where he was staying, and came to Alcala that he too might be cast into prison.

Ignatius advised him to go to the vicar, who received him kindly, and promised to send him to prison.

It was necessary, he said, for him to be detained until the return of the women.

He came back afterward to Spain and went to India.

He returned rich, to the great surprise of all at Salamanca, who had known him in former days.

Casades, after returning to Segovia, his native city, began to grow unmindful of his former purpose and life.

Arteaga was first made a magistrate.

No mortar, no...

Still standing in Segovia.

I mean, mind-boggling.

Now, there's a lot of slavery and a lot of...

Queipo de Lan- de Llano was outraged by the impeachment of his daughter's father-in-law.

On April thirteenth, he visited General Mola, now in Pamplona, to tell him he wished to join in the rising against the government being planned and soon persuaded General Miguel Cabanellas, Cabanelles, Cabanelles, sorry, another Republican stationed at Segovia, to do likewise.

Queipo de Lan- de Llano, a man of extraordinary dash and daring, unfortunately almost his only ad-admirable qualities, played a vital role, if not always savory role, in the history of the first months of the Spanish Civil War.

Had it not been for the removal of Alcalá-Zamora, he would probably have fought on the other side.

The Nationalists, as we now begin to call them, for they were about to make their first attempt at government under that name, controlled Old Castile from Burgos.

It was strategically vital to hold the Guadarrama passes, and neither side lost any time in trying to do so.

On the very day of the storming of the Montaña barracks in Madrid, July 20th, a column of troops and civil guards supporting the Republic marched from Alcalá de Henares toward Somosierra Pass in the Guadarramas, while another column of troops, civil and assault guards and militaria headed for Navacerrada Pass on the road to Segovia.

The next day, a third column composed of two battalions of infantry, two companies each of civil and assault guards, a machine gun battalion and six baterías of artillery, batteries of artillery, commanded by Colonel Enrique Castillo, set out for Lion's Peak Pass on the roads of Galicia.