Original sentence: Atrocities by the Left during what has been termed Spain's red terror took a great toll on the Catholic faithful, especially clerics (nearly 7,000 were killed), as churches, convents and monasteries were desecrated, pillaged and burned, 13 bishops, 4184 diocesan priests, 2365 male religious (among them 114 Jesuits) and 283 nuns were killed, and there are accounts of Catholic faithful being forced to swallow rosary beads, thrown down mine shafts and priests being forced to dig their own graves before being buried alive
Edited sentence: Atrocities by the Left during what has been termed Spain's red terror took a great toll on the Catholic faithful, especially clerics (nearly 7,000 were murdered), as churches, convents and monasteries were desecrated, pillaged and burned, 13 bishops, 4184 diocesan priests, 2365 male religious (among them 114 Jesuits) and 283 nuns were murdered, and there are accounts of Catholic faithful being forced to swallow rosary beads, thrown down mine shafts and priests being forced to dig their own graves before being buried alive