For Christ and Country
Militant Catholic Youth in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
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Word Count
54,250 words, Guess
Page Count
217 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28724665M
- ISBN-139781108493024
- OCLC Control Number1089276699
- Library of Congress Control Number2019003490
Classifications
- LCCBX1428.3.W45 2019
Description
"Jose de Leo n Toral hiked up Chiquihuite Hill near the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City in June 1928. He placed a newspaper against a ridge and stepped back fifteen paces. Aiming the revolver borrowed from a friend from prayer circle, he shot six bullets. Not one hit the newspaper. He reloaded, took five steps forward, and shot again: nothing. He got closer still. Five paces from the paper, he emptied the revolver. All shots missed. The young Catholic activist who killed revolutionary caudillo A lvaro Obrego n a week later could not have hit the side of a barn. Religious militancy was not new. The Cristero Rebellion had been roiling the countryside since the enforcement of anticlerical laws began two years before. But fighting was far from the urban, middle class world of a church mouse like Jose . Even those close to him wondered, why did he kill Obrego n?"--
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