The Forgotten Massacre of the Spanish Martyrs of Damascus that Pope Francis Made Holy Just Before He Died

To the first question, 'The Events of Damascus' (Critical), Oxford University Professor of Modern History of the Middle East Eugene Rogan responds emphatically to ABC: 'I see it as a genocide, in which one part of society considered another community as an existential threat and was convinced that extermination was a reasonable solution.' The tragedy referred to in the title of his new essay was unleashed on the afternoon of July 9, 1860, when t…