The Spanish Civil War - pg. 29

It was the fanatical mysticism of the church which provoked
most people, especially the 'miracles', which in the 1930s
seemed usually to consist of a 'communist' supposedly committing
a sacrilegious act and dropping dead on the spot. The novelist,
Ramon Sender, attributed anticlerical vandalism, such as the
desecration of mummies, to the church's obsession with the
kissing of saint's bones and limbs. Anything, however ridiculous,
was believed by the beatas, the black-clothed women
who obeyed their priests' every word like the devotees of a cult
leader. In Spain there were more psychological disorders arising
from religious delusions than all other kinds. In reaction to traumatic
superstition, workers formed gruesome ideas of torture in convents,
and many natural catastrophes were attributed to the Jesuits in
the same way as the church blamed freemasons, Jews and
communists.