For Love Of Our Lady

It seems appropriate. After all, this morning in Adoration as I was praying the Liturgy of the Hours, I realized it was the feast of Blessed Miguel Augustin Pro, one of the martyrs of Mexico’s famous Cristero War in the late 1920s. More than 90,000 people died in this war, perhaps the most severe persecution of […]

Cage Match: Our Lady of Guadalupe vs the Snake god

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the native people of Mexico City suffered conquest first by the Aztecs and then by the Spanish conquistadores. It was the custom of the Aztecs to harvest the conquered people as victims for human sacrifice, offered to the snake god Quetzalcoatl (Qweztzel-coh-AH-tul). (Think Mel Gibson’s movie Apocalypto, though it […]