Title: Cristero War - Wikipedia
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Cristero War
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Background
Conflict between church and state
Crisis
1917 Mexican Constitution
Background
Rebellion
Peaceful resistance
Escalation of violence
Diplomacy
US involvement
Knights of Columbus
Ku Klux Klan
Aftermath
Cárdenas era
Cristeros' crimes against school teachers
Today
Cristero War saints
"Battle Hymn of the Cristeros"
Spanish
English translation
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In popular culture
See also
References
Sources
Historiography
In fiction
In Spanish
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Content: To destroy the Church's influence over the Mexicans, anticlerical laws were instituted, which started a ten-year religious conflict that resulted in the death of thousands of armed civilians against an armed professional military that was sponsored by the government. Calles has been characterized by some as leading an atheist state and his program as being one to eradicate religion in Mexico. Crisis

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A period of peaceful resistance to the enforcement of the anticlerical provisions of the Constitution by Mexican Catholics unfortunately brought no result. Skirmishing broke out in 1926, and violent uprisings began in 1927. The government called the rebels Cristeros since they invoked the name of Jesus Christ under the title of "Cristo Rey" or Christ the King, and the rebels soon used the name themselves. The rebellion is known for the Feminine Brigades of St. Joan of Arc, a brigade of women who assisted the rebels in smuggling guns and ammunition, and for certain priests who were tortured and murdered in public and later canonized by Pope John Paul II. The rebellion eventually ended by diplomatic means brokered by US Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow, with financial relief and logistical assistance provided by the Knights of Columbus. The rebellion attracted the attention of Pope Pius XI, who issued a series of papal encyclicals from 1925 to 1