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==Organisation and members==
===The Palmarian Popes as Vicars of Christ===
{{Main|Holy See|List of popes}}

{{See also|Papal supremacy|Papal infallibility}}
[[File:Simple papal tiara and keys.svg|thumb|right|230px|The symbol of the [[Holy See]], featuring the Papal tiara and [[keys of St. Peter]], features on all official Palmarian Papal documents.]]
The Palmarian Church considers the Patriarchate of El Palmar de Troya to be the current [[Holy See]] of the [[Catholic Church]] and as part of this considers the legitimate apostolic predecessors of the Palmarian Pope to be all of the Roman Pontiffs from [[Saint Peter|Peter]] to [[Pope Paul VI]] whose legitimacy is confirmed by Gregory XVII's visions, and some who are unknown to history except from that source.

After Paul VI's death, it considers Rome to have fallen into apostasy and all reigning pontiffs in the [[Vatican City]] from [[Pope John Paul I]] onwards to be non-Catholic [[Antipopes]] and "precursors to [[Antichrist]]". The Palmarian Church claims that, following the death of Pope Paul VI in 1978, [[Jesus Christ]] mystically elevated Clemente Domínguez to the papacy as [[Clemente Domínguez y Gómez|Pope Gregory XVII]] and from this point on the Holy See has been located in El Palmar de Troya. The full title used by the Palmarian Pope is "''Sovereign Pontiff, [[Vicar of Christ]], Successor of Saint Peter, [[Servant of the servants of God]], Patriarch of El Palmar de Troya, Herald of the Lord God of Hosts, Aflame with the Zeal of [[Elijah|Elias]].''" Other titles used by the Palmarian Pontiff include "King of the Universe", "[[Caudillo]]" and the "Great [[Tagus (title)|Tagus]]."<ref name="gpc">Câmara Dantas, Pedro Luiz. (2021). [https://www.academia.edu/59054173/SOB_O_OLHAR_DA_VIRGEM_FESTEJANDO_UMA_IGREJA_TRANSFERIDA_O_SANTO_MAGNO_E_DOGM%C3%81TICO_CONC%C3%8DLIO_PALMARIANO_1980_1992_?ri_id=3760945 Under the Eye of the Virgin, Celebrating a Transferred Church: The Holy, Great and Dogmatic Palmarian Council (1980-1992)]. Academia.edu</ref>

====Succession====

To date, there have been four Popes in El Palmar de Troya and the current incumbent is [[Joseph Odermatt|Pope Peter III]], since 2016. The Palmarian Church had a [[College of Cardinals]] between 1978 and 1995, but it never had the opportunity to select a Pope in a [[conclave]]. So far in the history of the Palmarian Church, each Pope has chosen his successor by decree, and has chosen his Secretary of State.{{sfn|Lundberg|2020|pp=125, 176, 185}}

There is some precedent for this from [[Papal selection before 1059|before 1059]] in the Catholic Church, when at times a pope would often nominate his preferred successor. On the question of whether the pope can appoint his successor, Catholic theologians and canonists have historically been divided. Some assert absolutely that he can; others, such as [[Thomas Cajetan|Cajetan]], [[Juan de Torquemada (cardinal)|Torquemada]], and [[Peter Paludanus|Paludanus]], say that he is forbidden to appoint his own successor by divine and natural law, so that if he attempted it, the appointment would be void; others, such as [[Francisco Suárez|Suárez]], take a middle position that the pope can choose his successor in rare cases when urgent necessity of the Church requires it, but cannot prescribe this as the ordinary mode of succession, and if he were to do so it should not be observed, because the regular institution of a practice so inclined to lead to [[nepotism]] would be an unjust law.<ref>{{cite dictionary |last=Ortolan |first=T. |title=Élection des papes |encyclopedia=Dictionnaire de théologie catholique |volume=IV |year=1910 |at=coll. 2281–5 |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionnairedetv4pt2vaca/page/503/mode/1up}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Petra |first=Vincenzo |title=Commentaria ad constitutiones apostolicas seu bullas singulas Summorum Pontificum |volume=IV |location=Rome |year=1711 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=sMdzk1KPk3cC&pg=PA213 213–5]}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Ferraris |first=Lucius |authorlink=Lucius Ferraris |title=Papa |encyclopedia=Bibliotheca canonica iuridica moralis theologica |location=Rome |publisher=Polyglot Press of the [[Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples|Propaganda]] |volume=VI |year=1890 |pages=26–30 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uJ8sAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA26}}</ref><ref>Suárez, ''De fide,'' disp. X, sec. IV, [https://books.google.com/books?id=aCcNAAAAYAAJ&lr&pg=PA311 nn. 14–16]</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Castellari |first=Giovanni |title=La Santa Sede |volume=II |location=Milan |year=1903 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=8qELAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA634 634–9]}}</ref> {{ill|Anton Straub|de}} argues that there is no reason the pope's supreme power should not extend to the appointment of his successor, and that while a number of historical popes expressed their belief that they are incapable of this, they did not define that.<ref>{{cite book |last=Straub |first=Anton |title=De Ecclesia Christi |location=Innsbruck |year=1912 |volume=I |pages=492–5}}</ref>

In the 6th century, [[Pope Felix IV|Felix III]] appointed [[Pope Boniface II|Boniface II]] as his successor, and though his wishes were initially disregarded, Boniface was accepted as such after the death of [[Antipope Dioscorus]]; yet when Boniface attempted in like manner to appoint [[Pope Vigilius|Vigilius]] as his successor, he was compelled by the clergy to retract this decree as contrary to divine law.<ref>{{cite book |last=Baus |first=Karl |translator-last=Biggs |translator-first=Anselm |chapter=The Papacy between Byzantium and the German Kingdoms from Hilary (461–468) to Sergius I (687–701) |title=The Imperial Church from Constantine to the Early Middle Ages |location=London |publisher=Burns & Oates |year=1980 |isbn=0-86012-084-8 |page=626}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Duchesne |first=Louis |author-link=Louis Duchesne |title=L'Église au VI<sup>e</sup> siècle |location=Paris |year=1925 |pages=142–146 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HjK9pfbfYhUC}}</ref>

====Divergences from the conventional [[list of popes]]====

Although Vigilius is traditionally considered to have later become pope from 537 to 555, the [[Palmarian Bible#History of the Popes|Palmarian History of the Popes]] calls him an antipope and says that one "Saint Virgil the Great" was pope during this time, presided over a Second Council of Constantinople which took place at the same time as the [[Second Council of Constantinople]] under Vigilius, and was murdered and erased from history by Vigilius. A "Donus II" is said to have reigned in place of [[Pope Conon]]. [[Pope Sergius III|Sergius III]] is judged an antipope, and [[Antipope Christopher|Christopher]] the true pope during his time; a different man named Sergius III is then posited as true pope in the time of [[Pope Lando]].

[[Pope John XII]] is called an antipope who opposed a pope named Saint Leo VIII; the historical [[Pope Leo VIII]] may be identical either with St Leo VIII or with an Antipope Leo VIII said to have opposed [[Pope Benedict V]]. [[Antipope Boniface VII]] is said to have been an antipope for eleven years, then the true pope for three. [[Antipope John XVI]] is said to have opposed a true pope also named John XVI. The last two years of [[Pope John XIX|John XIX]]'s reign are assigned to a "[[Pope John (numbering)#John XX|John XX]]."

[[Pope Benedict IX|Benedict IX]] and [[Pope Sylvester III|Sylvester III]] are said to have been antipopes who opposed a non-historical Benedict IX and Benedict X. [[Pope Martin IV|Martin IV]] and [[Pope Honorius IV|Honorius IV]] are said to have been antipopes opposed to another man named Martin IV and one Alexander V. The authority of the [[Council of Vienne]] is rejected. At the time of the [[Western schism]], where some Catholic authorities differ on which line of popes was the true one, the Palmarian History of the Popes acknowledges [[Pope Urban VI|Urban VI]] and his successors as the true popes, and rejects the claimants elected by the authority of the [[Council of Pisa]].

Because the historical Benedict IX became pope on three separate occasions, and is therefore conventionally counted as the 145th, 147th, and 150th pope, his replacement with the Palmarian Benedict IX, said to have had one continuous pontificate, causes a difference in the numbering of subsequent popes, balanced by the addition of Boniface VII, the Palmarian John XVI, and John XX. Pope Paul VI is therefore counted by the Palmarian Catholic Church as the 263rd pope, whereas he is usually called the 262nd.

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! width="20%" |Papal name
! Personal name<br /><small>(Birth–Death)</small>
! Epithet
! Pontificate
|-
|264 <small>(Catholic)</small><Br>1 <small>(Palmarian)</small>
| 
| '''[[Clemente Domínguez y Gómez|Gregory XVII]]'''
| Clemente Domínguez y Gómez<br /><small>(1946–2005)</small>
| ''[[Prophecy of the Popes|de Glória Olívæ]]''<br /><small>(Glory of the Olive)</small>
| 6 August 1978 – 21 March 2005<br /><small>(27 years)</small>
|-
|265 <small>(Catholic)</small><Br>2 <small>(Palmarian)</small>
|
| '''[[Manuel Corral|Peter II]]'''
| Manuel Alonso Corral<br /><small>(1934–2011)</small>
| ''de Cruce Apocalýptica''<br /><small>(Of the Apocalyptic Cross)</small>
| 21 March 2005 – 15 July 2011 <br /><small>(6 years)</small>
|-
|266 <small>(Catholic)</small><Br>3 <small>(Palmarian)</small>
| [[File:Gregorio XVIII y Pedro III (Gregorio XVIII).jpg|80px]]
| '''[[Ginés Jesús Hernández|Gregory XVIII]]'''
| Ginés Jesús Hernández y Martinez<br /><small>(1959–)</small>
| ''Recéptor Christi''<br /><small>(Receiver of Christ)</small>
| 15 July 2011 – 22 April 2016<br /><small>(5 years)</small>
|-
|267 <small>(Catholic)</small><Br>4 <small>(Palmarian)</small>
| [[File:Papa Pedro III Iglesia Palmariana (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| '''[[Joseph Odermatt|Peter III]]'''
| Markus Josef Odermatt<br /><small>(1966–)</small>
| ''de Glória Ecclésiæ''<br /><small>(Glory of the Church)</small>
| 22 April 2016 – present<br /><small>({{age|2016|4|23}} years)</small>
|}

===Church Militant: friars, nuns and seculars===
{{Main|Church Militant|Miles Christianus}}

Living, active members of the Palmarian Church; whether religious or laymen; must be formally enrolled into the [[religious order]] of the Palmarian Church known as the '''Order of the Carmelites of the Holy Face in Company of Jesus and Mary''' (Spanish: ''Orden Religiosa de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz en Compañía de Jesús y María''). This, as with many historical Catholic religious orders, is organised into three distinct aspects: the [[friars]], the [[nuns]] and the seculars (members of the Palmarian laity who belong to the [[third order]]). Thus, in the Palmarian Catholic Church, actively engaging with the spirit of the Order is essential, regardless of vocation and [[Cafeteria Catholicism|laxity not a possibility]]. Exact up to date numbers for those currently belonging to one of the three bodies of the Carmelites of the Holy Face (and thus Palmarian Catholic Church) are hard to come by, however, in a sermon delivered in August 2011, the then reigning Pope Gregory XVIII claimed that there were between 1,000 and 1,500 members. Between 1976 and 2005, there were 192 men consecrated to the priesthood and ordained to the episcopate during the Pontificate of Pope Gregory XVII (thus belonging to the Friars of the Carmelites of the Holy Face), but by 2016, the number active was supposedly down to 32 bishops.<ref name="Lundberg2015b">{{cite web|last=Lundberg|first=Magnus|date=2015|title=Modern alternative popes|website=uu.diva-portal.org|publisher=Uppsala University Library|url=https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:873666/FULLTEXT01.pdf|access-date=2016-04-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406111743/https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2%3A873666/FULLTEXT01.pdf|archive-date=2016-04-06|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>As regards the bishops, from 1976 to 2005, under the pontificate of Gregory XVII, a total of 192 bishops were consecrated, but in less than thirty years 133 of them were expelled from the organisation for [[apostasy]] or voluntarily withdrew from the Palmarian Catholic Church, thus being excommunicated and losing their positions ({{citation|title=Palmarian Catholic Church|url=https://wrldrels.org/2016/10/08/palmarian-catholic-church/}})</ref> In the same year, the number of Sisters of the Carmelites of the Holy Face was around 40 nuns.

[[File:Third Order of the Carmelites of the Holy Face.png|thumb|right|280px|Religious accoutrements of a male Third Order Carmelite of the Holy Face in 2023. Including Palmarian religious books, brown shirt, Holy Face of Jesus scapular and penitential rosary.]]
Through the Carmelites of the Holy Face, the mystical [[Carmelite Charism]] is of great significance for Palmarians; members of the Third Order wear a large variation of the [[Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel]] with the [[Holy Face of Jesus]] on one side and the unified [[Sacred Heart of Jesus]] and the [[Immaculate Heart of Mary]] on the other. The men from the order dress in Carmelite brown while attending El Palmar de Troya at feast days and for the religious “Carmelite” as a [[Liturgical colours|liturgical colour]] for certain feasts has been added by the Palmarian Church to its Rite. In their religious documents, the Palmarians accept the traditional mystical narrative of the Carmelites as having been founded by the Prophet [[Elijah|Elias]] on [[Mount Carmel]] (succeeded by the Prophet [[Elisha|Eliseo]]). In following with [[Daniel a Virgine Maria]] (1615–1678) against the critical claims of the [[Bollandists]], they claim that the Elian Carmelite heritage was identical with that of the [[Essenes]]. In their Bible, the ''Sacred History or the Holy Palmarian Bible'', they call many Prophets direct predecessors, “Superior General of the Essenes”,  the Israelite “Caudillos” of the [[Maccabees]] are also presented as Essenes/Carmelites. The Palmarians glorify the Teresian Reform of St. [[Teresa of Ávila]] and St. [[John of the Cross]] from the [[Carmelites of the Ancient Observance]] into the [[Discalced Carmelites]] and consider themselves the true heirs of this tradition. Clemente and Manolo met Mother [[María de las Maravillas de Jesús]], a significant conservative figure of the Spanish Discalced Carmelites and claimed that she told them, "You, one day, will guide the sacred destinies of the Church.”<ref name="palmar">{{cite web |title=The Pontifical Documents of His Holiness Pope Gregory XVII|url=https://magnuslundbergblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/pontifical-documents-1978-1980.pdf|publisher=Magnus Lundberg}} Retrieved on 9 November 2023.</ref> They in turn canonised her as a saint on 17 September 1978 in the ''Fourteenth Papal Document'' of Pope Gregory XVII.<ref name="palmar"/>

Over the years, there have been Palmarians active in many different countries all over the world. In the late 1990s, there were Palmarian chapels in the following places (typically in the homes of lay members); in [[Spain]] ([[El Palmar de Troya]], [[Seville]], [[Granada]], [[Bermeo]], [[Hernani, Spain|Hernani]], [[La Bañeza]], [[Barcelona]], [[Gran Canaria]], [[Madrid]], [[Oliva, Spain|Oliva]], [[Sabadell]], [[Santander, Spain|Santander]] & [[Valencia]]), in [[England]] ([[London]], [[Southport]] & [[Manchester]]), in [[Scotland]] ([[Hamilton, Scotland|Hamilton]]), in [[Ireland]] ([[Belfast]], [[Dublin]], [[Gorey]], [[Thurles]] & [[Portaferry]]), in [[Italy]] (Cengles village of [[Lasa, Italy|Lasa]] & [[San Candido]]), in [[Germany]] ([[Augsburg]], [[Berlin]], [[Bottrop]], [[Delbrück]], [[Grafing bei München]], [[Kempten]], [[Mainz]], [[Hohberg|Niederschopfheim]], [[Nonnenbach (Ahr)|Nonnenbach]] & [[Haiterbach|Unterschwandorf]]), in [[Switzerland]] ([[Aadorf]], [[Andermatt]], [[Jaun, Switzerland|Jaun]] & [[Oberwil, Basel-Landschaft|Oberwil]]), in [[Liechtenstein]] ([[Triesenberg]]), in [[Austria]] ([[Sonntagberg|Böhlerwerk]], [[Lower Austria|Hollenstein]], [[Kitzeck im Sausal|Kitzeck]], [[Leonding]], [[Ludersdorf]], Mittlern, [[Oberperfuss]], [[Salzburg]], [[Sollenau]] & [[Virgen]]), in [[Poland]], in [[Russia]], in the [[United States]] ([[Arkdale]], [[Chicago]], [[Livingston Manor, New York|Livingston Manor]], [[Sonoma, California|Sonoma]], [[Tacoma, Washington|Tacoma]] & [[Yelm, Washington|Yelm]]), in the former [[Netherlands Antilles]] ([[Bonaire]] & [[Curaçao]]), in [[Australia]], in [[New Zealand]], in [[Argentina]] ([[Buenos Aires]], [[Arequito]], [[Deán Funes, Argentina|Deán Funes]], [[Santa Fe, Argentina|Santa Fe]], [[Mar del Plata]], [[Mendoza, Argentina|Mendoza]], [[Capilla del Monte|Sierra Chica]], [[Tandil]] & [[Lanús Partido|Villa Diamante]]), in [[Paraguay]] ([[Julián Augusto Saldívar]], [[Ciudad del Este]] & [[Villa Elisa, Paraguay|Villa Elisa]]), in [[Peru]] ([[Huancayo]], [[Lima, Peru|Lima]], [[Pisco, Peru|Pisco]], [[Las Lomas District|Piura]] & [[Santa Rosa de Yavarí|Santa Rosa]]), in [[Venezuela]], in [[Nigeria]] ([[Abatete]], [[Abuja]], Akpim, [[Asaba]], [[Awkuzu]], [[Enugu (city)|Enugu]], Ihitta Ogada, [[Lagos]] & Nguru Mbaise), [[Kenya]] (Nguru Dawida, Ngange Nyika, [[Taveta, Kenya|Taveta]], Migwani & Wudany), in the [[Philippines]] ([[Gandara, Samar|San Ramón]]) & in [[Brazil]] ([[Aracaju]], [[Atibaia]], [[Buerarema]], [[Belo Horizonte]], [[Ilhéus]], [[Passo Fundo]], [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[São Paulo]] & [[Vitória, Espírito Santo|Vitória]]).<ref>{{citation|title=Per l'elenco delle cappelle palmariane nel mondo|url=https://magnuslundbergblog.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/00-Capillas-1.pdf}}</ref>
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===Church Triumphant: saints of the Palmarian Church===
{{Main|Communion of saints|Church Triumphant|Intercession of saints}}

[[File:Padre Pio Stigmata.jpg|thumb|right|220px|[[Padre Pio]] was the first saint canonised by the Palmarian Catholic Church after 1978. He played an important role in the early apparitions of 1968 associated with Clemente.]]
The Palmarian Catholic Church counts among the [[saints of the Catholic Church]], those [[canonised]] before 1978 by the Roman Catholic Church, but in addition, have canonised thousands more saints since that time, beginning with [[Padre Pio]] in the ''Tenth Document'' of Pope Gregory XVII on 12 September 1978.{{sfn|Lundberg|2020|p=233}}<ref name="clementedocs"/> Most of this activity is due to Pope Gregory XVII, who stated in a 1987 document that he had canonised 2,164 saints, not including his canonisations of several "innumerable" classes of martyrs.{{sfn|Lundberg|2020|p=233}} The most complete recorded collection of names of Palmarian saints is covered in the ''Palmarian Lives of the Saints'' (2012).{{sfn|Lundberg|2020|p=233}}

Of the 263 popes Gregory XVII recognised as his predecessors, he canonised all but 7 of those not previously raised to the altars. The ''Historical Review of all the Popes who have shepherded Holy Church founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ,'' based on Gregory XVII's visions and defined under anathema by Gregory XVIII to be truth revealed by God, asserts that [[Pope Clement V|Clement V]], [[Pope Clement VI|Clement VI]], [[Pope Alexander VI|Alexander VI]], [[Pope Leo X|Leo X]], [[Pope Paul IV|Paul IV]], and [[Pope Clement XIV|Clement XIV]] are in hell, [[Pope Boniface VII|Boniface VII]] will be in purgatory until the end of time, and all the other popes are in heaven, of whom 110 were detained in purgatory. The popes said to be damned are titled "Reprobate" by analogy to "Saint," as in "Reprobate Clement XIV." The ''Historical Review'' also extends the epithet "the Great," conventionally used of three or four popes, to a total of 147 popes, with the Apostle Peter known as "the Very Great," and various other epithets such as "the Peacemaker" and "the Convert" assigned, often in combination with "the Great." Non-popes incidentally asserted to be in hell within the ''Historical Review'' include [[Philip IV of France]], [[Martin Luther]], [[Henry VIII]], the [[Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal|Marquis of Pombal]], [[Louis XV]], [[Charles III of Spain]], and [[Jean-Marie Villot]].

Historical Catholic rulers, particularly monarchs were canonised including: [[Charlemagne]], [[Philip II of Spain]], [[Pelagius of Asturias]], [[Alfonso X of Castile]], [[Isabel I of Spain]], [[Mary, Queen of Scots]], [[Élisabeth of France]], [[Charles of Austria]] and [[Ferdinand the Holy Prince]], but also a president of a republic: [[Gabriel García Moreno]] (from [[Ecuador]]). In addition to this, the Palmarian Church canonised [[Christopher Columbus]], who, sponsored by the [[Catholic Monarchs]] is popularly known as a leading figure in the European [[Discovery of the Americas]], led by the [[Spanish Empire]] (the entire ''Twenty-Eighth Document'' of Pope Gregory XVII is dedicated to this).<ref name="clementedocs"/>

One large category of people who were canonised are the [[Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War]] (or in official Palmarian parlance, the "Holy Martyrs of the Holy Crusade Against Marxism in Spain"), which included a large number of bishops, priests and nuns who were killed during the [[Red Terror in Spain]].<ref name="clementedocs"/> Hundreds of named individuals were canonised, including a number of political figures, such as [[Francisco Franco]] (''[[Caudillo]]'' of Spain), [[Luis Carrero Blanco]], [[José Antonio Primo de Rivera]] and [[José Calvo Sotelo]].<ref name="clementedocs"/><ref>{{cite news|last=Macías|first=Javier|date=2015-01-03|title=En el interior de la iglesia del Palmar de Troya|website=sevilla.abc.es|language=es|location=Seville, ES|publisher=[[Diario ABC S.L]]|url=http://sevilla.abc.es/sevilla/20150103/sevi-interior-palmar-troya-201501021845.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602225745/http://sevilla.abc.es/sevilla/20150103/sevi-interior-palmar-troya-201501021845.html|archive-date=2016-06-02|access-date=2016-04-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Martín-Arroyo|first=Javier|date=2016-05-26|title=The Palmarian Catholic Church: a lie that lasted 40 years|website=elpais.com|edition=English|location=Seville, ES|publisher=[[El País]]|url=http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/05/25/inenglish/1464158613_478208.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527162145/http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/05/25/inenglish/1464158613_478208.html|archive-date=2016-05-27|access-date=2016-08-16}}</ref><ref name="elc">Anta, Christina. (2020). [https://www.elconfidencial.com/cultura/2020-02-07/palmar-de-troya-iglesia-palmariana-serie-movistar-bra_2444016/ El Palmar de Troya: la divina estafa]. [[El Confidencial]]</ref> In addition, Gregory XVII canonised an "innumerable" group of people who fought on the nationalist side; although he categorised the war as a [[crusade]], Gregory stated that not everybody who died on the nationalist side was a martyr or motivated by the defence of Christianity.{{sfn|Lundberg|2020|p=232}} In 1980, the Palmarian Church declared that Francisco Franco was now a co-[[patron saint]] of Spain, alongside [[James the Great]] and [[Teresa of Ávila]].{{sfn|Lundberg|2020|p=233}}

[[File:Anna Katharina Emmerick - Gabriel von Max 1885.jpg|thumb|right|220px|[[Anna Katharina Emmerich]] was canonised and declared a [[Doctor of the Church]]. Her Marian visionary works were a significant factor in influencing Palmarian doctrine.]]
There were other large groups of people who were canonised from certain periods of history, including an "innumerable" group of [[Irish Catholic Martyrs]] who died in defence of the Catholic faith under Anglo-Protestant rule.{{sfn|Lundberg|2020|p=232}} Closely related to this were the [[One Hundred and Seven Martyrs of England and Wales|Catholic Martyrs of England and Wales]] who were martyred during the 16th and 17th centuries under [[Protestantism]], the names of many of whom are listed as canonised the Papal documents of the Palmarian Church.{{sfn|Lundberg|2020|p=232}} Missionaries who in the [[Far East]] who died for the Catholic faith were also canonised in groups, such as the [[Martyrs of China]], the Martyrs of the [[Boxer Rebellion]] and the [[Martyrs of Indochina]] (including [[Vietnam]], [[Laos]] and [[Cambodia]]). The Martyrs of the [[French Revolution]] are listed, including a large number of people who were killed by the revolutionaries around the time of the [[War in the Vendée]] and in the [[September Massacres]], as well as the [[Martyrs of Compiègne|Martyrs of Orange]].<ref name="clementedocs"/>
Saints from modern times canonised by the Palmarians include: [[Faustina Kowalska]], [[Maximilian Kolbe]], [[Josemaría Escrivá]] and [[Teresa Benedicta of the Cross]].<ref name="clementedocs"/> Various Catholic mystics, seers and visionaries, particularly those associated with Marian and apocalyptic themes, were also canonised, including: [[Girolamo Savonarola]], [[María de Jesús de Ágreda]], [[Anna Katharina Emmerich]], [[Marie Julie Jahenny]], [[Anna Maria Taigi]], the seers of Fátima ([[Francisco and Jacinta Marto]]), the seers of La Salette ([[Maximin Giraud]] and [[Mélanie Calvat]]), as well as the medieval [[Ramon Llull]].<ref name="clementedocs"/>

An [[internet hoax]] claiming that the Palmarians had canonised [[Adolf Hitler]] originated on a fabricated Palmarian blogging site and was disseminated through [[Wikipedia]] and other media;<ref name="Lundberg on Hitler hoax">{{cite book |last1=Lundberg |first1=Magnus |title=A Pope of their Own: El Palmar de Troya and the Palmarian Church |url=https://magnuslundbergblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/palmar-final3.pdf |language=en|pages=175–177}}</ref> the Palmarian Catholic Church has denied the claim.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lies and Calumnies |url=https://www.palmarianchurch.org/lies-calumnies-and-the-media/ |website=Official Website of the Order of the Carmelites of the Holy Face in company with Jesus and Mary}}</ref> According to the religious studies scholar Magnus Lundberg, the leadership of the Palmarian Catholic Church treat the continued spread of the hoax as evidence that the media and the internet have been coopted by enemies of the church.<ref name="Lundberg on Hitler hoax"/>