October 19th, 2020

This was the final Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in San Francisco de Asis, Jalisco, just before the outbreak of the Cristero War (1926–29), a struggle by the faithful against the anti-Catholic, pro-Communist policies of the Mexican government, which enacted, under President Plutarco Elías Calles, a statute to enforce the anti-clerical articles of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, which sought to eliminate the power of the Catholic Church.
#VivaCristoRey!
(Does anyone know anything else about this photo?)