1. Jean Meyer, La Cristiada (3 vols. Mexico City: Siglo XXI, 1973–4), 1:136.
2. Matthew Butler, “Revolution and the Ritual Year: Religious Conflict and Innovation in Cristero Mexico,” Journal of Latin American Studies 38, no. 3 (2006): 465–90.
3. Norah Jaffary, False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004), 76.
4. Ruth Harris, Lourdes: Body and Spirit in a Secular Age (New York: Viking, 1999), xix.
5. E.g., David Lorey, “The Revolutionary Festival in Mexico: November 20 Celebrations in the 1920s and 1930s,” The Americas 54, no. 1 (1997): 39–82.