A brother of the convent of Santo Espiritu del Monte, located in the Valencian town of Giletdied after attack on religious people perpetrated by a person in the morning of this Saturday, sources from the Civil Guard confirmed. The first published news story tells of a “deranged” man who attacked the brothers with shovels, shouting that he was acting “in the name of God“.
As Benemérita explains to Europe Press, after jumping the monastery fencethere was an attack against seven of the religious who were there, one of them, Brother Juan Antonio, 76 years old, has just died. The Civil Guard is looking for the alleged murderer, who hit the victims “with cruelty and treachery”. It hasn’t happened yet no arrest for the facts.
“It is with deep surprise and pain that we received this morning the news that a disturbed person entered the convent of Santo Espíritu del Monte (Valencia, Valencia) and attacked the brothers who were in their room, with the intention of killing the brothers.
This was stated in the statement made by the provincial of the Franciscans of the Immaculate Conception, Fray Joaquín Zurera Ribó, OFM.
For his part, the provincial of the Franciscans of the Immaculate Conception, Fray Joaquín Zurera Ribó, OFM, published a statement in which he recounts the event and explains that a person entered the convent and attacked the religious who were in their rooms.
The rest of the brothers, according to the statement, also were violently attacked.
The Emergency Information and Coordination Center (CICU) detailed that around 10:00 a.m. The summons was received to help several injured brothers from the Holy Spirit Monastery of Gilet, which is why different health resources were mobilized on site.
Concretely, a SAMU transferred a 76-year-old man to head trauma at the clinical hospital; while SVB units transferred three others injured due to trauma or contusions to Sagunto Hospital. They are three men aged 57, 66 and 95 years old.
The religious institution condemns this aggression and associates the suffering of the brothers, “with the wounds in the body and the pain in the soul for what they experienced, which, without a doubt, leaves a deep mark on people” .
“We also ask the attacker to be aware of the damage and being able to rectify behavior that is not at all typical of the human condition. This event also asks all of us, brothers, to be more attentive to prevent the entry into our fraternities of people who could cause damage of any kind, and thus know how to take care of each other.
