“The scene that piqued my interest in the Cristero War was my grandmother’s earliest memory, as she would recount it. She was four or five years old, living in a town called Tenamaxtlán, 135 kilometers south of Guadalajara, Jalisco. Her memory consisted of seeing two men hanging from a telegraph post outside her home, their faces covered, as she and her mother left for the market.”
Gaby Solís, Writer
It has been 100 years since the start of Mexico’s Cristero War, when Catholic priests were expelled from the country and people had to worship in secret.
Ángela Peralta, the “Mexican Nightingale,” went to Mazatlán in 1883 to perform, but before she could do so died in a yellow fever epidemic that gripped the city.
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Mexico’s history abounds with heroic women, six of whom have recently been honored with statues on Mexico City’s Paseo de las Heroinas.
