Posted on 11/23/2020 4:49:18 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1927, the anti-clerical Mexican government made the emblematic martyr of the Cristero War....
Miguel Pro‘s dying cry, “Viva Cristo Rey!” — “Long live Christ the King!” — was a refrain of Cristeros, anti-government guerrillas who in the late 1920’s fought the revolutionary Mexican government’s attempts to forcibly restrict the power of the Catholic Church.
That conflict had been brewing for years, an outgrowth of Mexico’s own complex history of colonization and development — measures to restrict the church’s size, wealth, and social reach had been mooted and sometimes implemented well back to the middle of the 19th century.
Early in the 20th, the confrontation was merely a twist on its classic form: liberal state-builders and the Catholic hierarchy were (or increasingly saw themselves as) diametrically opposed in their vision for Mexico....
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Catholic Vote did an excellent video on him. God bless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKgMU7aPUOk&t=5s
I cried at Mass yesterday morning when our priest told the story of this young martyr.
Viva Christo Rey was also the last words of many Catholic Christians executed by Che Guevara’s thugs.
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