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Bishop of Sonora Juan Navarrete's program for his pastoral visit to Father Ignacio De la Torre's Most Pure Conception Parish in Nogales, Sonora

Flyer on the works and expenditures pertaining to the construction of the Virgin of Guadalupe Temple in Nogales, Sonora and an announcement on the raffle to raise the necessary funds to complete it

Compositions from students enrolled in schools supported by the Public Education Ministry in opposition to the church and religion

Telegram from Jalisco’s governor, José Guadalupe Zuno, to Foreign Secretary, Alfonso de la Torre, in response to the National League to Defend Religious Liberty Tampico chapter’s protest stemming from the closure of the Jesuit Science Institute…

Condolence card for Alfonso De la Torre’s death

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.…

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…

Photograph with a view of the inter-diocesan seminary in Montezuma, New Mexico during winter. The Society of Jesus established the seminary for diocesan clergy in 1937. There, Francisco undertook his last examinations after his precipitous departure…

Portrait of the De la Torre family. Appearing from left to right: Carlos, Alfonso, Luis and Benjamín, María, Doña María, Don Ignacio and Ignacio

Photographic portrait of Ignacio de la Torre Berumen and María Uribarren de la Torre during their adulthood

Francisco De la Torre’s responses to the Society of Jesus’ admission questionnaire

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

Carlos De la Torre’s account about his last days as a Cristero combatant. Includes news about his brother Alfonso’s death

Keepsake from Lupe and Josefina’s first communion, Edmundo De la Torre’s daughters, whose mass was officiated by Father Francisco De la Torre. The De la Torre priests played a special role in the family's religious events

An International Civic Union’s bilingual flyer calling for the public’s support for the organization based in San Antonio, Texas in order to protest religious persecution in Mexico

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

Cartoon representing the priest, town, governors (as a dog), state governments (as a bone) and President Plutarco Elías Calles. Calles orders the dog to attack the priest or else he will be left without a “bone” (a colloquial expression in…

Photograph of an ordained priest and the bishop conducting ordination.

Photograph of Francisco de la Torre's ordination in Rome, San Remo, Italy

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