Acín, Ramón b. August 30, 1888 d. August 6, 1936 Journalist, Anti-Fascist Fighter. Born in Huesca, Aragón, Spain, he began his career as a journalist for the newspaper "El Diario de Huesca" and the magazines "Don Pepito" and "L'Esquella de la Torratxa". Later, he founded the magazine "La Ira" and began his collaboration in leftist newspapers with articles against the coup d'état of General Francisco Franco. One month after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, he was...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni) Cementerio de Huesca (Aragón), Huesca, Aragon, Spain
Aragon, Ramiro II 'The Monk' b. 1041 d. August 16, 1157 King of Aragon. Son of Sancho Ramírez, King of Aragon and Navarre, and Felicia of Roucy. As a child, his father sent him to monastery of Saint Pons de Thomières where he was elected Abbot of the Castillian royal monastery of Santos Fecundo y Primitivo in Sahagún and later was Abbot of the monastery of San Pedro el Viejo at Huesca. He had been elected as the Bishop Barbastro-Roda when his elder brother, Alfonso, died in 1134, leaving Ramiro the crown. Ramiro suspended his vows to rule long...[Read More] (Bio by: Lady Annne) San Pedro Monastery, Huesca, Aragon, Spain Plot: Chapel of San Benito (Royal Pantheon)
b. August 30, 1888 d. August 6, 1936