I Was a Parish Priest or God's War (Spanish: La guerra de Dios) is a 1953 Spanish drama film directed by Rafael Gil and starring Claude Laydu, Francisco Rabal and José Marco Davó.
[1] It was awarded the Gran Premio at the first ever San Sebastián International Film Festival.
It portrays the efforts of a young Priest sent to a poor mining village in the early 1930s.
A priest receives as his first assignment the parish of a mining town, beset by poverty.
In this area he will focus all his forces to overcome the resentment accumulated by the miners towards the ecclesiastical profession.