be executed. He later claimed to have been terrified by the scene and named the day the worst in his life; he turned gray the following night. None of the few witness accounts available – including his own – notes he protested the killings. Some authors claim the local hierarchy was aware and approved of the executions. Prior to the Unification Decree Añoveros featured prominently in plans, drafted by Junta Nacional Carlista de Guerra and to be executed upon taking Madrid. They envisioned formation of Christianization Columns, units entrusted with propaganda and religious activities until the Church structures are re-established in the capital; Añoveros was marked to head the Navarrese column, supposed to act in the Puerta del Sol quarter. These plans were cancelled by political developments within the Nationalist camp; Añoveros kept serving as a chaplain and was noted in Carlist auxiliary units on the Castellon front in 1938. He did show up in Madrid carrying out proselytizing activities once the city had been taken in 1939: he was noted as engaged in distribution of El Pensamiento Navarro, the sole Carlist daily spared amalgamation in the Francoist propaganda machinery. Early ecclesiastical career At some point Añoveros became vicedirector of a diocesan Pamplonese weekly La Verdad. It is not entirely clear when he ceased as a parish priest for St. Nicholas in Pamplona; during the war he was officially delegated to Delegación de frentes y hospitales, a branch of Falange catering for the wounded; no sooner than in 1939 Añoveros was nominated representative of the diocese to Casa del Consiliario de Madrid and in this capacity he made few trips abroad. Afterwards he was appointed primer capellán and professor at Escuela Nacional de Mandos del Frente de Juventud, an institute designed to train the Falangist youth cadres. This assignment was terminated in 1942, when he assumed the Santa Maria parish in the central Navarrese town of Tafalla; he was also appointed director of the local Casa Sacerdotal Diocesana. He passed into the living memory of the local population as a young, ingenious and resolute priest, trying to serve the poor community the best; he continued at the post until 1950. In early 1950 Añoveros left Navarre for Andalusia; he was appointed canónigo de la catedral in Málaga. He rose also to Director Espiritual del Seminario Conciliar, rector of the local seminary, and performed some other minor duties. Working closely with