Original sentence: During the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, and especially in the early months of the conflict, the faithful, including individual clergymen and entire religious communities were executed with a death toll of the clergy alone, not including lay people, of 13 bishops, 4,172 diocesan priests and seminarians, 2,364 monks and friars and 283 nuns, for a total of 6,832 clerical victims.In Barcelona, out of the 58 churches, only the Cathedral was spared, and similar desecrations occurred almost everywhere in Republican Spain.In addition to murders of clergy and the faithful, destruction of churches and desecration of sacred sites and objects were widespread.On the night of July 19 1936 alone, some fifty churches were burned
Edited sentence: During the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, the Church generally gave its support to the Nationalists.Partly for these reasons, in the early months of the conflict, in particular, certain representative of the Catholic church, including individual clergymen and others, were executed with a death toll of the clergy , not including lay people, of 13 bishops, 4,172 diocesan priests and seminarians, 2,364 monks and friars and 283 nuns, for a total of 6,832 clerical victims.The Catholic Church had been associated with and supported the Spanish monarchy and the conservative, aristocratic system imposed by it prior to its abolition in 1931