Relics of Cristero martyrs stirs memories, and hope, during LA visit

For some of the people in the pews at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on April 18, the visit of 36 relics belonging to martyrs from Mexico’s Cristero War was about more than history.

“My great-grandpa was there during the Cristiada [war],” said Kathleen Orosco from St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Whittier.

Orosco’s grandfather, then a child, was carried on horseback as federal soldiers hunted Cristero fighters as a wave of extreme anti-clericalism swept through Mexico.

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