Setting: A government office vs. a rugged field, 1926-1929.
Narrator 1: After the Revolution, the government declared war on the Church itself.
Government Official: We must strip the Church of its influence. We will ban the public Mass!
Cristero Captain: You can burn our churches, but you cannot take our soul!
All Cristeros: ยกViva Cristo Rey!
Narrator 2: This was the Cristero War. Thousands of Catholics took up arms. Eventually, Church and State reached an uneasy truce.