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Letter from the National League to Defend Religious Liberty’s regional delegate to José Valenzuela addressing his disagreements with the local clergy, the organization’s status, and his pending resignation

Report about the National League to Defend Religious Liberty´s activities in Sonora one year after being appointed regional delegate. The report presents the lack of coordination between the insurgent groups that took up arms against the government…

Account of an American hunting group’s unexpected events in Sonora due to a misunderstanding with Gen. Luis Ibarra’s forces published in Outdoor Life magazine

Broadside published by the Military Headquarters in Sonora presenting the Cerro Gordo Plan, the Popular Liberationist Army’s political program

Pamphlet containing Mexican Youth Catholic Organization’s President Octavio Elizalde’s (1923-1929) address to the Los Angeles and San Diego Diocesan Council establishing the organization and actions of its U.S. chapters

News clipping regarding the death of Cristero General Luis Ibarra, active in Jalisco (1926-1929) and Sonora, and Alfonso de la Torre’s commander, published by El Imparcial

Certifying letter by Cristero General Luis Ibarra informing about Alfonso de la Torre’s death

Broadside in which the Popular Liberationist Army’s Chief General of Military Operations in Sonora, Luis Ibarra, presents the armed movement’s mission statement and calls fellow Sonorans to join him

Condolence card for Alfonso De la Torre’s death

Magdalena’s chapter of the National League to Defend Religious Liberty´s Manifesto protesting against the religious persecution in Jalisco and calling for the public’s support of the Religious Defense Committee

Popular Liberationist Movement’s poster presenting its program to resolve agrarian issues published by the Military Headquarters in Sonora

Pastoral letter from Bishop Juan Navarrete explaining to the Diocese’s clergy and parishioners the reasons for his self-exile

Letter from Bishop Juan Navarrete to Isidro in which he expresses his opinion about the legality, but ill-judged, aggressive action in Sonora and the reorientation of work for the National League to Defend Religious Liberty within the state

Cover of the sixth pastoral letter written by bishop of Sonora Juan Navarrete to his diocese in which he denounces Catholicism’s persecutors and urges parishioners to collaborate with Catholic Action and reorganize the Sonoran Diocesan League to…

Letter from Juan Navarrete, bishop of Sonora, to Alfonso de la Torre and other signatories from the Mexican Youth Catholic Organization (ACJM) in Nogales, Sonora in which he explains the Mexican National Episcopate’s stance on the legal and…

Catechetical instructions (number 11) that Bishop of Sonora Juan Navarrete directed from exile to his diocese. It contains reflections on Jesus’ will to die on the cross as well as on Protestantism

Letter from the Bishop of Sonora Juan Navarrete to Alfonso de la Torre where he explains the natural and supernatural means he must use to free himself from his vices. It additionally contains an invitation for Alfonso to return to Sonora to focus on…

Condolence letter concerning Alfonso de la Torre’s death, written by Manuel Noriega, a close cousin of the de la Torre brothers, who read the news in Mexico City’s La Prensa newspaper

An Official Pro-Homeland Publication of the Mexican Defense’s Popular Committee which contains an article on the alleged American and Russian interference in Mexico, an Ecuadorian protest of religious persecution in Mexico and a list of U.S.…

Fidel Muro, Martyr