New Britain herald., 1926-07-28
MEXICAN GOVT. ID PUT OWN WORKERS
 IN THE CHURCHES
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 dearly beloved by the Mexican peo- lple, which is situated just outside the capital. From far-off mountain Villages came entire Indian families who had been trudging along roads by day and sleeping by the wayside at night. The women carried babies tiled in shawls, upon their backs While the larger children trotted alongside their parents, who carried scant bundles of food and a few thin blankets with which to ward off the bitterness of the night chill in the highlands. &I Shrines Crowded
 By thousands they surrounded and | then crowded into the shrine and knelt there so thickly wedged to- !gether that the entrance of another person was impossible until some one vacated their bit of space.
 The Indians love the Virgin of IGuadalupe. Tradition has it that she first appeared to one of their own kind-humble Juan Diego. In 1 her visitations the Virgin Is reputed to have given preference to the low Hest of the low, rather than to the 1 idignitaries of the church: and throughout the subsequent 800 years the Indians in return have given their supreme affections. According to legend the Virgin, responding to the prayers of the Indians has saved Mexico City many times from flood, lpestilence and other disaster.
 1 Repeat Their Prayers 1 Therefore, today with implicit i trust written upon their faces, this 1 prayer was murmured over and
 over from the threats of the thous- ands of Indians at the shrine: "Oh, Lady of Guadalupe. oh, Mother of Guadalupe, oh, Sacred Virgin of Guadalupe - save Mexico, save i your church!" i In many other churches contain { ing shrines 9 the Virgin of Guada- lupe the same prayer is being heard daily and will be continued until midnight Saturday when the new religious regulations of the govern ment go into effect and the priests and prelates no longer will perform 1 their functions. Meanwhile the government is pressing it's investigation into the National League for Defense of i Religious Liberty and it's activities for bringing about an economic | boycott in protest against the gov- ernment's religious regulations. Directors Indicted
 Senor Villareal, Senor Bustos and | Senor Garza, members of the first | three of the leagues directors ar rested, have been indicted by the | first district court on a charge of | provoking disobedience to the law by signing the economic boycott manifesto. At present they are at liberty on bail and have requested that they be allowed to continue their bonds.
 The police also are continuing the examinations of the members i of other Catholic organizations. Yesterday they summoned to head quarters and questioned Sonora Elena Lastourian De Silva, presi- i dent of the Union Of Catholic ] Women. Like other women Catho- lie leaders summoned she was merely questioned and. not detan
 ed. Handbills Distributed . Handbills are being distributed | Throughout Mexico appealing to the 1 people to put on their Christian | armor" and protest against the | governments religious regulations. 1 The distribution seemingly has been | made with the utmost caution, for those responsible for it are un- known to the authorities. The hand I, bill does not bear any signature or i give any indication as to who Is responsible for it. It says: "To men who are not towards: | To women who have no fear of the | fremen or the jail of martyrdom: | We implore you to make visible | your Christian armor ands your | protest against the outrageous de- i crees against our religion and to i raise aloft your religious insignia.
 Catholics! Nero ended. caligula died. Diocletian disappeared. And so also will end all of the enemies of the church. Only God does not die, nor will His church ever die. Christ lives. Christ reigns. Christ rules" Warning to Women
 The admonition to the women not to fear the firemen presumably refers to the fremen playing hose upon women demonstrators a few months ago, when, fearing the ar rest of the priests of the Catholic church of the Sacred Family in Mexico City, they marched 10 the department of the interior building. where the firemen threw water upon the crowd in order to dis pcrse 1t.
 There is still much discussion as 10 whether after the priests leave their churches next Saturday night by order of the pastoral letter signed by the Most Rev. Mora y Del Rio. archbishop of Mexico, and a number of other archbishops and bishops the government will close them. and place agents in charge | 10 guard the. property and treas ures, or whether it will acquiesce | in the request of the SChismatiC | Catholics to turn over the churches