Mexican Martyrdom
Subtitle: Firsthand Accounts of the Religious Persecution in Mexico 1926-1935
Publisher: Tan Books
Published: 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780895553300
Description: Mexican Martyrdom is a series of true stories of the terrible anti-Catholic persecutions which took place in Mexico in the 1920s. Told by the Jesuit priest, Fr. Wilfrid Parson, these stories are based upon cases he had seen himself or that had been described to him personally by the people who had undergone the atrocities of those times.

Though most contemporary readers don t know it, a full-fledged persecution of the Church, with thousands of martyrdoms, took place in modern times, just south of our own border including the famous Jesuit priest, Fr. Miguel Pro, was martyred before a firing squad during this persecution.

Between the conquest of Mexico by Cortes in 1521, and the Mexican Independence from Spain in 1821, Spain created in Mexico a great Catholic civilization to rival that of any nation in Europe. But when the Great Mexican Revolution began in 1810, this flourishing country began to wither and die. That Revolution was not to end until 1928, with the end of the brutal rule of President Plutarco Elias Calles, though in many ways it continues still. The heroic resistance of Mexican Catholics during this persecution is a great inspiration to Catholics today.

Mexican Martyrdom proves that hatred for the Catholic Church exists even in our times and can still flare into open and bloody persecution in this so-called enlightened age.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Dilemma
label: I.; title: Challenge
label: II.; title: Defiance
label: III.; title: Father Pro
label: IV.; title: Hidden Shepherds
label: V.; title: Veiled Heroines
label: VI.; title: Three Months
label: VI.; title: Solution?
label: VIII.; title: Meditation at Tepozotlan
label: IX.; title: Political Interlude
label: X.; title: Picking Up the Threads
label: XI.; title: Splendor Before the Storm
label: XII.; title: "I Will Strike the Shepherd..."
label: XIII.; title: Catacombs
label: XIV.; title: Deadlock
label: XV.; title: A Rivalry
label: XVI.; title: "There Is No God"
label: XVII.; title: Kaleidoscope
label: XVIII.; title: "De Profundis"
label: XIX.; title: Doom and Verdict
label: XX.; title: Decency Says Farewell
label: XXI.; title: Epilogue
label: XXII.