Women's Role In The Cristero Rebellion

Throughout the Cristero rebellion, women played a major role in supporting the movement. As Meyer mentions, women encouraged men to fight in this war in order to defend their right to worship and profess their faith. In fact, women organized different pro-religion groups to support Cristeros. For example, Barbara Miller talks about “The Union de Damas Catolicas de Mexico” who were a religious group who was organized way before the Cristeros Rebllion began, but played a key role during the rebellion. This group was successful that in “1922 they held the first national congress”. There were two types of women that contributed to the war, Las señoras and Las religiosas,. Las señoras, were upper and middle class women, which supported the Cristeros