The Cristero War (Spanish: La Guerra Cristera), also known as the Cristero Rebellion or La Cristiada [la kɾisˈtjaða], was a widespread struggle in central...
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canonized a group of 25 saints and martyrs who had died in the Mexican Cristero War. The vast majority are Catholic priests who were executed for carrying...
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including armed struggles that transformed Mexican culture and government Cristero War (1926–1929), a struggle in central and western Mexico against articles...
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José Sánchez del Río (category Cristero War)
Luis Sánchez del Río (March 28, 1913 – February 10, 1928) was a Mexican Cristero who was put to death by government officials because he refused to renounce...
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educate Americans about the attacks on Catholics and the church in the Cristero War. The organization produced pamphlets in English and Spanish denouncing...
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John J. Burke (section Cristero War)
in matters pertaining to the Mexican religious conflict known as the Cristero War. Burke worked closely with Dwight Whitney Morrow, the US ambassador to...
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The Mexican War of Independence (Spanish: Guerra de Independencia de México, 16 September 1810 – 27 September 1821) was an armed conflict and political...
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Victoriano Ramírez (category Cristero War)
also known as "El Catorce" (The Fourteen), was a Mexican General of the Cristero War known for his excellent combat skills. Victoriano Ramírez was born on...
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History of Mexico (section Cristero War (1926–1929))
about violent, bloody, and protracted conflict known as the Cristero War. The Cristero War of 1926 to 1929 was a counter-revolution against the Calles...
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For Greater Glory (category Cristero War films)
2012 epic historical war drama film directed by Dean Wright and written by Michael Love, based on the events of the Cristero War. It stars Andy García...
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Mexican Revolution (category Wars involving Mexico)
leading to a major grassroots uprising against the government, the bloody Cristero War that lasted from 1926 to 1929. Although the period is characterized as...
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broke out in the Cristero War (also known as the Cristiada) of 1926 to 1929. This was a civil war between Catholic rebels called Cristeros and the anti-clerical...
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25 May 1927 21 May 2000 by Pope John Paul II One of the Saints of the Cristero War Aibert 1060 7 April 1140 Aichardus unknown 687 Aidan of Lindisfarne c...
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empire. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Reform War. Conservatism portal Cristero War Carlist Wars Second French Intervention in Mexico "Juárez es apoyado...
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Alberto B. Gutiérrez (category Cristero War)
General Alberto B. Gutiérrez was a Cristero officer who participated in the Cristero War. He held the rank of general. General Alberto B. Gutierrez was...
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Catholic Church in Latin America (section Cristero War)
the federal side, 30,000 Cristeros, and numerous civilians and Cristeros who were killed in anticlerical raids after the war's end. As promised in the...
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Anti-clericalism (section Cristero War)
Calles Law during the rule of Plutarco Elías Calles eventually led to the Cristero War, an armed peasant rebellion supported by the Catholic Church, against...
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Cristero War (1926–1929) List of wars involving Mexico Mexican Drug War This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mexican War...
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erected in honor of the Mexican martyrs who lost their lives during the Cristero War, an armed conflict between 1926 and 1929 (although some clashes continued...
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Enrique Gorostieta (category Cristero War)
Mexican soldier best known for his leadership as a general during the Cristero War. Born in Monterrey into a prominent Mexican family of Basque descent...
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Retrieved 4 November 2018. Marina, Diego Lopez (11 March 2016). "Last known Cristero soldier in Mexico dies at 103". Catholic News Agency. Retrieved 31 March...
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second term however, he was assassinated by José de León Toral during the Cristero War. Obregón's political legacy is that of pragmatic centrism, allying with...
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Mexican Revolution that raged from 1910 to 1917, which was followed by the Cristero War that lasted from 1926 to 1929. People moved throughout the border, with...
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José Reyes Vega (category Cristero War)
José Reyes Vega was a Mexican priest who participated in the Cristero War as a general. He was known as "Father Vega". On April 19, 1927, an event took...
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hierarchy, and "free-thinking" officers would be promoted instead. The Cristero War was a widespread struggle in central and western Mexico in response to...
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The Football War (Spanish: Guerra del fútbol), also known as the Soccer War or the 100 Hour War, was a brief military conflict fought between El Salvador...
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Plutarco Elías Calles (category Cristero War)
left-wing populist and secularist reforms, opposition to which sparked the Cristero War. Born on 25 September 1877 in Sonora, Elías Calles fought in Venustiano...
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Toribio Romo González (category Cristero War)
persecutions of the Cristero War. Beatified and later canonized by Pope John Paul II along with 24 other saints and martyrs of the Cristero War, he is popularly...
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Aerial bombing of cities (category World War II strategic bombing by populated place)
men dropped kerosene bombs on the Greenwood neighborhood. During the Cristero War in Mexico in 1929, Irish pilot and mercenary Patrick Murphy mistakenly...
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Julia G. (2015a). Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War. New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190205003...
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