 The Catholic hierarchy believed that the violence directed against it was the result of a plan, "a program of systematic persecution of the Church was planned to the last detail".José Calvo Sotelo told the Spanish Parliament in April 1936 that in the six weeks since the government, from mid-February 15 to April 2, 1936, had been in power, some 199 attacks were carried out, 36 of them in churches.He listed 136 fires and fire bombings, which included 106 burned churches and 56 churches otherwise destroyed.