20
th
Century Mexico’s Catholic Uprising

Olivier Lelibre

The 20th century was the bloodiest century in history, the "century of massacres,"1 "hell's century,"2the century of martyrs-just like all the others? No, not just like all the others; it was the great century of martyrs, infinitely more than the others....Never had there been so many martyrs in the space of 100 years,