 Their activity was decreasingly public and increasingly formatted as private, small-circle meetings.Some went on as legal owners of sanctuaries built during Francoism and issued publications on history of their units, though fairly frequent death notices, published in the press and referring to just deceased "requeté hasta su muerte" or "requeté voluntario de la Cruzada", demonstrated that the ranks of combatants were getting increasingly thin.The death notices are still being published today, though now usually referring to "the last living combatant" from specific region or battalion.