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9 Archbishop Luis María Martínez: A Man Full of God What is known as the Cristero War (1926–29) was a bloody persecution in Mexico against the Catholic Church. The people rose up to defend their Catholic faith—a people in the strictest sense of the word. That is to say: the struggle involved not only men, but also women, young people, the elderly, and even children. Their leader was none other than Christ the King himself. Together with the faith, it was the people themselves who were persecuted, a people who felt wounded in the most intimate part of their being. Although Church leaders and the federal government had appeared to reach a peace agreement in 1929, it was short-lived; the terrible persecution gradually resurfaced in the 1930s. “La Segunda,” from 1934 to 1938, was a second attempt by the Catholic faithful to resist a new wave of government impositions combined with a religious persecution. The government eventually came to realize that its path of draconian anticlericalism was backfiring, and decided to opt for a more pragmatic approach in its relations with the Church—but always without losing control of the situation, and seeking to maintain a subjugated Church.

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