The Calles Government also received bombing support from the US via planes taking off from Brownsville, TX.
Posted on 06/11/2021 8:13:08 PM PDT by ebb tide
Driving northeasterly for a few minutes, about a mile out of town, the cars suddenly veered to the side of the road and rolled to a stop at El Puerto de Santa Teresa, a nondescript stretch along the primitive roadway that would develop into the Sombrerete-Chalchihuites Highway.
Forced from their seats, the prisoners – Catholics: one priest and three laymen – stumbled from the cars on that August 15, 1926, forced down a parched slope of dirt, a graveyard of flora in the arid plateau’s xeric shrubland dotted with skeletal clumps of fractured grass and the occasional awkward patch of opuntia, prickly pear cactus.
High noon, the men – captors and captured – sweltered under the ravaging sun that traveled overhead, in its zenith, along its route in conjunction with the Tropic of Cancer.
The 33 articles of Calles’s Law were intended to ensure the destruction of Catholicism in Mexico by giving the State powers over the Church, such as: all priests were to register with the government...
As the temperature flared, so, too, did the tempers of the tormentors.
“You all conspire to revolt against the government,” they accused the four men.
“We offer you freedom. All you need to do is acknowledge the legitimacy of the anti-religious laws of President Plutarco Elías Calles. That’s all you need to do.”
Devout Catholics in an anti-Catholic Mexico, all four refused.
(Excerpt) Read more at remnantnewspaper.com ...
Ping
The truth is the Cristeros were deceived into rebelling against the Mexican government and when the government made concessions to the catholic church, the church, and the priesthood turned on the rebels and betrayed them to the government. THAT is what actually happened.
And Bill Clinton did not have sexual relations with that woman.
The Calles Government also received bombing support from the US via planes taking off from Brownsville, TX.
Why spew communist talking points here? Your lies are obvious. And shameful.
That tweet is a fabrication...
That is untrue
Per history is IS true. Truth is not “my truth”, truth is what actually happened.
What claim you happened is erroneous
The Cristeros war had been going on around 3 years under Calles and Obregon before elements of the church hierarchy made truce with the govt after the govt made concessions and only then did some cristeros and clergy continue to fight despite that so called peace.that involved the govt and some clergy mostly outside jalisco ....Jalisco was the focal point of fighting
The truce was uneasy and atrocities and disregard of the truce continued on both sides into the Cardenas regime later when he granted more religious freedoms and imprisoned the rascal Calles
The conflict sorta lasted with the flimsy truce up to WWII
your notion the cristeros were duped to rebel to begin with is inaccurate
I’m not Catholic I’m southern Baptist but I can read...maybe that’s what this is about to you
And I’ll take Mexican believers over Mexican depots anyday if I have to pick
If you care to offer proof the Cristeros were duped into rebelling in 1926 offer it by all means
Nope, it is communist talking points written by the scum who killed the Cristeros.
Well said.
😎
What I wrote was the truth and I stand by it.
What you wrote is communist lies and that you stand behind it speaks volumes.
You don’t even know me and you spout stuff like that? The historical facts stand.
I not only don’t know you, who you are is irrelevant - your claims are straight out of the communist party talking points on this subject. That you stand by them suggests I would not want to know you. Liars make me sneeze.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.