The Mexican Government arrested Father Luis Bátiz Sainz at a private house. He and three members of the Mexican Association for Catholic Youth would be driven out of town, and then shot, the following day.
Before the closure of the churches, he had spoken at a gathering where the topic of armed resistance to suppression of the Church had been discussed.
He was later canonized.
The USSR claimed Wrangel Island.
An Ethel Hays' cartoon for the day.
It was a Saturday
Last edition:
Tuesday, August 10, 1926. Executions in Mexico, Hurricane in Nova Scotia.
Labels: 1920s, 1926, boats and ships, Cartoons, Cristero War, Disaster, J.R. Williams, Mexico, Nova Scotia, Weather
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