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ARTICLES RELATED TO Cristero War - Escalation of violence | | | |  Cristero War - Escalation of violence: Encyclopedia II - Cristero War - Escalation of violenceIn Guadalajara, Jalisco, on August 3, 1926, some 400 armed Catholics shut themselves up in the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in that city. They were involved in a shootout with federal troops from there, and surrendered only when they ran out of ammunition. According to U.S. consular sources, this battle resulted in 18 dead and 40 injured.
The following day, in Sahuayo, Michoacán, 240 government soldiers stormed the parish church. The parish priest and his vicar were killed in the ensuing violence. On August 14, government agents s ...
See also:Cristero War, Cristero War - The 1917 Constitution, Cristero War - Background to rebellion, Cristero War - Peaceful resistance, Cristero War - Escalation of violence, Cristero War - The Cristero war, Cristero War - Diplomacy and the uprising, Cristero War - Cristero War saints Read more here: » Cristero War: Encyclopedia II - Cristero War - Escalation of violence |
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| | | | Cristero War - Escalation of violence: Encyclopedia II - Cristero War - The Cristero war The formal rebellion began with a manifesto sent by Garza on New Year's Day, titled A la Nación (To the Nation). This declared that "the hour of battle has sounded" and "the hour of victory belongs to God". With the declaration, the state of Jalisco, which had seemed to be quiet since the Guadalajara church uprising, exploded. Bands of rebels moving in the "Los Altos" region northeast of Guadalajara began seizing villages, often armed with only ancient muskets and clubs. The Cristeros' battle cry was ¡Viva Cristo Rey! ¡Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe! ("Long live Chri ...
See also:Cristero War, Cristero War - The 1917 Constitution, Cristero War - Background to rebellion, Cristero War - Peaceful resistance, Cristero War - Escalation of violence, Cristero War - The Cristero war, Cristero War - Diplomacy and the uprising, Cristero War - Cristero War saints Read more here: » Cristero War: Encyclopedia II - Cristero War - The Cristero war |
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| | | | Cristero War - Escalation of violence: Encyclopedia II - Cristero War - Diplomacy and the uprising Before and after the successes had by the rebels and the support of Bishop Orozco y Jiménez, the Mexican bishops supported the Cristeros. The bishops were expelled from Mexico after Father Vega's savage attack on the train, but continued to try and influence the war's outcome from outside the country
The U.S. ambassador to Mexico, in October 1927, was Dwight Whitney Morrow. He initiated a series of breakfast meetings with Calles where the two would discuss a whole range of problems, from the religious uprising, to oil and irrigation. ...
See also:Cristero War, Cristero War - The 1917 Constitution, Cristero War - Background to rebellion, Cristero War - Peaceful resistance, Cristero War - Escalation of violence, Cristero War - The Cristero war, Cristero War - Diplomacy and the uprising, Cristero War - Cristero War saints Read more here: » Cristero War: Encyclopedia II - Cristero War - Diplomacy and the uprising |
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| | | | Cristero War - Escalation of violence: Encyclopedia II - Cristero War - Cristero War saints Main Article: Saints of the Cristero War
The Catholic Church has recognized several of those killed in connection with the Cristero rebellion as martyrs. Perhaps the best-known is Blessed Miguel Pro, SJ. This Jesuit priest was executed by firing squad on November 23, 1927, without benefit of a trial, on the grounds that his priestly activities were in defiance of the government. The Calles government hoped to use images of the execution to scare the rebels into surrender, but the photos had the opposite effect. Upon seeing the ...
See also:Cristero War, Cristero War - The 1917 Constitution, Cristero War - Background to rebellion, Cristero War - Peaceful resistance, Cristero War - Escalation of violence, Cristero War - The Cristero war, Cristero War - Diplomacy and the uprising, Cristero War - Cristero War saints Read more here: » Cristero War: Encyclopedia II - Cristero War - Cristero War saints |
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| | | | Cristero War - Escalation of violence: Encyclopedia II - Cristero War - The 1917 Constitution Five articles of the 1917 Constitution of Mexico were particularly aimed at reducing the influence of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexican life. Article 3 demanded secular education in schools. Article 5 outlawed monastic religious orders. Article 24 forbade public worship outside of church buildings, while Article 27 restricted religious organizations' rights to own property. Finally, Article 130 took away basic civil rights of members of the clergy: priests and religious leaders were prevented from wearing their habits, were denied the right to vote, and were no ...
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| | | | Cristero War - Escalation of violence: Encyclopedia II - Cristero War - Peaceful resistance In response to these measures, Catholic organizations began to intensify their resistance. The most important of these groups was the National League for the Defense of Religious Liberty, founded in 1924. This was joined by the Mexican Association of Catholic Youth (founded 1913) and the Popular Union, a Catholic political party founded in 1925.
On July 11, 1926, the Mexican bishops voted to suspend all public worship in Mexico in response to the Calles Law. This suspension was to take place on August 1. On July 14, they endorsed plan ...
See also:Cristero War, Cristero War - The 1917 Constitution, Cristero War - Background to rebellion, Cristero War - Peaceful resistance, Cristero War - Escalation of violence, Cristero War - The Cristero war, Cristero War - Diplomacy and the uprising, Cristero War - Cristero War saints Read more here: » Cristero War: Encyclopedia II - Cristero War - Peaceful resistance |
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| | | | Cristero War - Escalation of violence: Encyclopedia II - Cristero War - Background to rebellion When the anti-Catholic measures were enacted in 1917, the President of Mexico was Venustiano Carranza. Carranza was overthrown by the machinations of his one-time ally Álvaro Obregón in 1919, who succeeded to the presidency in late 1920. While sharing the anti-clerical sentiments of Carranza, he applied the measures selectively, only in areas where Catholic sentiment was weakest.
This uneasy "truce" between the government and the Church ended with the election of Plutarco Elías Calles in 1924. Calles applied the anti-Catholic laws ...
See also:Cristero War, Cristero War - The 1917 Constitution, Cristero War - Background to rebellion, Cristero War - Peaceful resistance, Cristero War - Escalation of violence, Cristero War - The Cristero war, Cristero War - Diplomacy and the uprising, Cristero War - Cristero War saints Read more here: » Cristero War: Encyclopedia II - Cristero War - Background to rebellion |
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