Fred R. Kline Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Artist: Unknown

Title: Martyrdom of Five Cristeros, October 8, 1927

Date: 1927 

Medium: Oil on Tin 

Dimensions: 7.5 x 10.5 in.

Translated  Inscription:

Execution of Cristeros by federal soldiers on the outskirts

of San Gabriel, Jalisco, October 8, 1927.

On the same site, the soldiers were ambushed,

suffering the same fate.  

 

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  Pope John Paul II, on May 21, 2000, canonized 27 Mexican saints, most of whom were martyred in the Cristero Rebellion of the 1920's, a three-year civil war that pitted the federal army against priests and peasants and resulted in 70,000 deaths.

Commemorating the canonization of the new saints and exhibited for the first time at Fred R. Kline Gallery, this extremely rare and historically important ex-voto, implying divine justice carried out, may be the unique visual document of the martyrdom of Cristeros during this hushed period of Mexican history. One of the new saints may have been among the group of five being executed in this resounding depiction, which in all probability was created by an eye witness.

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