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(Created page with "'''Spain''', officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a nation in Southern Europe, spanning approximately 505,990 km² on the Iberian Peninsula, bordered by France, Andorra, Portugal, and the Mediterranean Sea, with Atlantic coastlines.<ref name="CIA">{{Cite web |title=Spain |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/spain/ |publisher=CIA World Factbook |date=2025-05-01 |access-date=2025-05-28}}</ref> With a population of about 47.8 million, its off...")
 
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Saints and blesseds include [[Saint James the Great]], 1st-century apostle; [[Saint Teresa of Ávila]], canonized in 1622; [[Saint Ignatius of Loyola]], canonized in 1622; and [[Blessed Bartolomé Blanco]], beatified in 2007, martyr of the Spanish Civil War.<ref name="Teresa"/><ref name="Blanco">{{Cite web |title=Blessed Bartolomé Blanco |url=https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20071028_blanco_en.html |publisher=Vatican News |date=2007-10-28 |access-date=2025-05-28}}</ref>
Saints and blesseds include [[Saint James the Great]], 1st-century apostle; [[Saint Teresa of Ávila]], canonized in 1622; [[Saint Ignatius of Loyola]], canonized in 1622; and [[Blessed Bartolomé Blanco]], beatified in 2007, martyr of the Spanish Civil War.<ref name="Teresa"/><ref name="Blanco">{{Cite web |title=Blessed Bartolomé Blanco |url=https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20071028_blanco_en.html |publisher=Vatican News |date=2007-10-28 |access-date=2025-05-28}}</ref>
=== Dynamic list ===
{{SaintsQueryCountry}}


== Challenges to Catholicism ==
== Challenges to Catholicism ==