On 15th August 2025 Isabel Peralta spoke at a commemoration on the beach at La Garrofa, where a group of Dominicans were martyred by the brutal communist-backed Republicans in 1936, during the Spanish Civil War.
27 Dominican martyrs from this period have been beatified.
In this speech at La Garrofa (now presented with English subtitles by H&D), Isabel Peralta explains that the significance of this martyrdom should be seen in the long history of Spain’s fight for its national identity, including another famous martyrdom on the beach at Malaga in 1831, when José Maria Torrijos and his followers were cut down in a hail of bullets – a scene immortalised in a famous oil painting by Antonio Gisbert Pérez, now in the Prado.
Isabel explains the noble legacy of these martyrs: “If we listen to the voice of our blood, we will let the audacity and courage of our ancestors guide us and remember why we are here today.”
