Aug. 3 Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Weekday

Gospel Verse, Luke 7:16:A great prophet has arisen in our midst and God has visited his people.Today the Roman Martyrology commemorates the Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War who were clergy, religious, and laypersons executed during the Spanish Civil War, in a period known as the Red Terror. It is estimated that in the course of the Red Terror 6,832 members of the Catholic clergy were killed.