| Summary: | This article addresses a little-known religious rebellion that occurred between 1873 and 1876, during the administration of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, following the constitutionalization and rigorous application of the Laws of Reform. It summarizes the most important military aspects of the armed movement, which was localized in the state of Michoacán and the zone bordering on Guanajuato. It establishes the connections between the Religionero movement –as it was known at the time, although by the end of the nineteenth century they began to be called Cristeros, in an apparent anticipation of the twentieth-century Cristero rebellion– with other conservative movements that preceded it and analyzes the ideology professed by these rural Catholic rebels, who would later join the triumphant Tuxtepec Rebellion.
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