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FRANCISCO FERRER The Twentieth Century Martyr
: FRANCISCO FERRER His Life, Work and Martyrdom Published on the first anniversary of his death by the Francisco Ferrer Association 241 Fifth Avenue, New York Edited by Leonard D. Abbott FRANCISCO FERRER was born at Alella, near Barcelona, in 1859. His parents, well-to-do farmers, were devoted Catholics, but he, as soon as he began to think for himself, became a Freethinker. In 1879 he proclaimed himself a Republican. He took part in an abortive revolution led by General Villacampa, was compelled to flee to Paris, and there became secretary to the Spanish Republican leader, Ruiz Zorrilla. While in Paris, Ferrer supported himself by giving lessons in Spanish. A lady by the name of Mile. Meunier became his pupil and his confidante. He told her of a hope he had conceived of a new Spain freed from the stifling grip of Roman Catholicism, and regenerated by education and progressive ideals. She sympathized with his vision, and when she died left him a large bequest. Ferrer returned to Spain, and in 1901 started the first of his Modern Schools. He used as text-books some of the greatest radical and scientific works of the day, by Kropotkin, by Elisee Reclus, and others. From the first the Roman Catholics were bitterly hostile to the Modern Schools. They looked for an excuse to suppress them, and in 1906 their opportunity came. Mateo Morral, who had been connected with the schools, threw a bomb at the King and Queen of Spain. Ferrer was charged with complicity in the act, and held in prison for a whole year. But nothing could be proved against him. The second opportunity of the clericals came in July, 1909, when an uprising inspired by indignation against an unjust war in Morocco took place in Barcelona. Ferrer was arrested again, this time on the charge of having been the head and chief of the Barcelona uprising. The second charge was as false as the first one. Nevertheless, he was condemned to death by a courtmartial, and was shot at Montjuich fortress on October 13. His last words were "Long Live the Modern School!"
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