Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Chronology of events
- List of abbreviations
- PART I THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE
- 1 The Metamorphoses of the Conflict
- 2 The Roots of the Problem
- 3 The Conflict between the Two Swords, 1925–1926
- 4 The Conflict Between the Two Swords, 1926–1929
- PART II THE CRISTEROS
- PART III AFTER THE PEACE
- Envoi
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - The Conflict Between the Two Swords, 1926–1929
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Chronology of events
- List of abbreviations
- PART I THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE
- 1 The Metamorphoses of the Conflict
- 2 The Roots of the Problem
- 3 The Conflict between the Two Swords, 1925–1926
- 4 The Conflict Between the Two Swords, 1926–1929
- PART II THE CRISTEROS
- PART III AFTER THE PEACE
- Envoi
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Cristiada
From the day when the Episcopate announced its decision to suspend public worship,
people began to go to put their consciences in order, even though it was a time when there was plenty of work to be done. With every day that passed, the crush of people increased in the village; people came from all the surrounding homesteads; one could feel sorrow in every breast, every face was pale, every eye was filled with sadness and throats were constricted as people pronounced words, and it was always the same question: ‘Why is this and why are they closing the churches, what is happening?’ and the only answer was ‘Who knows? I don't know’.
The nightmare of 31 July, the last day of worship, and the traumatic experience suffered that night were the immediate causes of the insurrection; more than one person, on his knees in the dark as the Blessed Sacrament passed by, came to his own decision. On the following day Aurelio Acevedo put out his horse to graze ‘so that it could put some fat on and be able to withstand the hard labour which would face it when the rains ended’. This ‘hard labour’ was the war which Aurelio Acevedo saw approaching and for which he was preparing without further delay, visiting all his companions in the peasant union of Valparaíso, Zacatecas.
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- The Cristero RebellionThe Mexican People Between Church and State 1926–1929, pp. 48 - 66Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1976
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