 Church buildings were burned or taken over by the CNT or by supporters of the Republican government and turned into warehouses or put to other secular uses.Thousands of members of the Catholic clergy were tortured and killed and many more fled the country or sought refuge in foreign embassies.Antony Beevor estimates the total number of people killed in Catalonia in the summer and autumn of 1936 at 8,352 (out of a total of 38,000 victims of the Red Terror in all of Spain).