The Mexican Civil War

In 1924, there was a war between the Catholic Church and State that killed over 90,000 Mexicans. The revisions to the Mexican Constitution in 1917 were the cause of the war. Seeing that the laws were unjust, bishops began a boycott against the Mexican government. Because of the boycott, people stopped going out and living their daily lives as normal. In 1926 was the first battle where 400 church members fought against the government. That was the beginning of the rebellion. During that time the soldiers killed a priest and his vicar in a Sahuayo church. Any place that related to the government was attacked by the church and they would go in shouting “Long Live the King!” On June 21 of 1927 the first group of females was established and joined in as “Saint Joan of Arc”.
Their Job was to look for weapons and care for the men that ended up wounded. According to Explorando Mexico, “By March 1928, there were some 10,000 women involved. Many stole weapons into the areas of war and carried them in carts filled with grain or cement. By the end of the war, they numbered some 25,000.” This showed the big part women had to do in the cristeros rebellion. Priest Francisco Vera was killed for having a public Mass. In October 1927, a man named Dwight Whitney Morrow became the U.S. Ambassador for Mexico and brought peace to Mexico by coming up with agreements between Portes Gil, the Mexican hierarchy, the Vatican and the U.S. State Department. According to Mcgill, on June 21, 1929, a pact known as the “agreements” was enacted which gave Catholics back their right to