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The Routes of Intransigence: Mexico's ‘Spiritual Pilgrimage’ of 1874 and the Globalization of Ultramontane Catholicism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2018

Brian Stauffer
Brian Stauffer*
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In the fall of 1874, in the midst a particularly severe round of Church-state conflict, Mexico's archbishop, Pelagio Antonio Labastida y Dávalos, introduced a novel weapon in the Catholic Church's struggle against liberal anticlericalism. He had sought and obtained a special dispensation from Pope Pius IX for all Mexicans to participate in a “spiritual pilgrimage,” a month-long exercise of mental travel, prayer, and contemplation that would figuratively transport the faithful out of Mexico's anticlerical milieu and into the purified air of Jerusalem, Rome, and other Old World holy sites, where they would pray for divine intercession on behalf of the embattled Church. The practice had been inaugurated a year earlier by lay Catholics in Bologna, as a response to the prohibition of mass pilgrimages in the flesh in the former Papal States. Labastida y Dávalos felt that spiritual pilgrimage could be especially effective in Mexico, where the anticlerical government of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada had embarked on a radical program of secularization. In fact, the recently codified Laws of Reform had likewise prohibited acts of public religiosity in Mexico, attempting thus to suppress the myriad local processions and mass pilgrimages that helped to define Mexican Catholicism.

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The Americas , Volume 75 , Issue 2 , April 2018 , pp. 291 - 324
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35. Elogio fúnebre y otras piezas encomiásticas del Ilmo. y Exmo. Sr. Dr. Don Pelagio Antonio Labastida y Dávalos, Arzobispo de México, por el obispo de San Luis Potosí (Mexico City: Imprenta de Ignacio Escalante, 1891), 37.

36. Tapia Méndez, El siervo de Dios, 57–73; Descripción de la fiesta celebrada en Roma con motivo a la canonización de San Felipe de Jesús y demás mártires del Japón, seguida de la alocución de los Sres. Obispos allí reunidos y un discurso en favor de la Iglesia del Oriente pronunciado por el monseñor Félix Dupanloup, obispo de Orleans (Guadalajara: Imprenta de Rodríguez, 1862). Felipe de Jesús was a Franciscan priest and martyr born in Mexico in the late sixteenth century. Admitted to the Franciscan order in 1590 in Manila where he had gone to pursue a mercantile career, Felipe de Jesús was shipwrecked in Japan with several friars on a return trip to Mexico. Attempting to evangelize the Japanese, the friars were captured, tortured, and martyred in Nagasaki by the Japanese emperor, who ordered them hung on crosses and pierced with spears. Beatified in 1627, Felipe de Jesús became a patron saint of Mexico City in 1630. See Cornelius Burroughs Conover V, “A Saint in the Empire: Mexico City's San Felipe de Jesús, 1597–1820” (PhD diss.: University of Texas at Austin, 2009), 1–10,160–178; and García, Antonio Rubial, La santidad controvertida: hagiografía y conciencia criolla alrededor de los venerables no canonizados de Nueva España (Mexico City: UNAM/FCE, 1999), 128–160Google Scholar.

37. The canonization also spurred the formation of new lay devotional associations back in Mexico. See Descripción de la fiesta celebrada en Roma; and Novena consagrada al culto y festividad del glorioso San Felipe de Jesús, protomártir mexicano, que se reimprime a expensas de su Asociación fundada en Irapuato el día 5 de marzo del año de 1873, quien la dedica a su ilustrísimo prelado Dr. y Mtro. D. José M. de Jesús D. Zollano y Dávalos, por su felíz aprobación (Mexico City: Tip. Religiosa de M. Torner y Compañía, 1874).

38. Stauffer, “Victory on Earth or in Heaven,” 77–79.

39. García Ugarte, Poder político y religioso, Vol. 2, 1374–1407; Saranyana, Josep Ignasi, ed. Teología en América Latina, Vol. 2 (Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2008), 594–597Google Scholar; Beirne, Charles J., “Latin American Bishops of the First Vatican Council, 1869–1870,” The Americas 25:3 (January 1969): 265–280CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Mexico's delegation of ten bishops was the largest from Latin America, though none of them dared to speak during the proceedings.

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42. For the spread of new devotional associations in the archdiocese of Mexico, see Bautista García, Cecilia Adriana, Las disyuntivas del estado y de la iglesia en la consolidación del orden liberal: México, 1856–1910 (Mexico City: Colegio de México, 2012), 261–263Google Scholar. For the Mexican south, see Wright-Ríos, Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism, 98–140; and Smith, The Roots of Catholicism, 186–187. The first bishop of the new diocese of León, José María de Jesús Diez de Sollano y Dávalos, also proved to be especially interested in promoting new European-style devotions in his jurisdiction. See Stauffer, “Victory on Earth or in Heaven,” 102–103. For the work of Catholic charitable organizations and religious orders, see Arrom, “Mexican Laywomen Spearhead a Catholic Revival”; and García, Cecilia Bautista, “La afirmación del orden social en el estado liberal y las nuevas congregaciones religiosas,” in Formas de gobierno en México: poder político y actores sociales a través del tiempo, Gayol, Víctor, ed., Vol. 2 (Zamora: El Colegio de Michoacán, 2012)Google Scholar.

43. Stauffer, “Victory on Earth or in Heaven,” 86–129.

44. Tapia Méndez, El siervo de Dios, 175–188.

45. Bautista García, “La coronación pontificia de las imágenes marianas.”

46. García, Rafael. S. Camacho, Itinerario de Roma a Jerusalen, escrito en el año de 1862 (Guadalajara: Tipografía Dionisio Rodríguez, 1873)Google Scholar.

47. Camacho, Itinerario, 139–143.

48. For pilgrimage as an initiatory act, see Turner and Turner, Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture, 8–9. Interestingly, political stability and the emergence of relatively more affordable and efficient transportation networks brought modern pilgrimage within the reach of many more Mexican Catholics by the 1880s, when their prelates began organizing “national” pilgrimages to Rome. See for example La gran romería nacional: historia de la primera peregrinación mexicana a Roma (Mexico City: Tipografía de Aguilar e Hijos, 1889).

49. La Bandera de Ocampo, October 11, 1874.

50. Stauffer, “Victory on Earth or in Heaven,” chapt. 2; Bautista García, Las disyuntivas; García Ugarte, Poder político y religioso, Vol. 2, 1295–1301; Camacho Mercado, Frente al hambre y al obús, especially chapt. 1.

51. Stauffer, “Victory on Earth or in Heaven”; Marco Ulises Iñiguez Mendoza, “¡Viva la religión y mueran los protestantes! Religioneros, liberales, y catolicismo, 1873–1876” (PhD diss.: Colegio de Michoacán, 2015.

52. Robert Curley has argued persuasively that Mexican forms of mass political action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were patterned on the practice of pilgrimage. Pilgrimage itself, meanwhile, became an act of “political theater” in the context of state persecution of the Church. See Curley, “La peregrinación como teatro político en la revolución mexicana, 1910–1930,” paper presented at the XIII Reunión de Historiadores de México, Estados Unidos, y Canadá, Querétaro, October 2010.

53. El Progresista, April 2, 1874.

54. Jesús Corral, Zinapécuaro, to Interior Minister, Morelia, February 26, 1875, Archivo General e Histórico del Poder Ejecutivo de Michoacán [hereafter AGHPEM], Guerra y Ejército, caja 2, exp. 27. The Lord of Araró shrine in Michoacán was an important pilgrimage destination from the seventeenth century. See Butler, Popular Piety and Political Identity, 26, 46; and Lara, Ramón López, Zinapécuaro: tres épocas de una parroquia (Zinapécuaro de Figueroa, Michoacán: Fimax, 1970), 119–125Google Scholar.

55. See Stauffer, “Victory on Earth or in Heaven,” chapt. 3. Gabriela Díaz Patiño's 2016 book, Católicos, liberales, y protestantes, 93–152, further highlights the ways in which Reforma liberalism disrupted public worship, particularly mass shrine visitation, in the archdiocese of Mexico.

56. Instrucción pastoral que los Ilmos. Sres. Arzobispos de México, Michoacán, y Guadalajara dirigen a su Venerable Clero y a sus fieles con ocasión de la Ley Orgánica expedida por el Soberano Congreso Nacional el 10 de diciembre del año próximo pasado y sancionada por el Supremo Gobierno el 14 del mismo mes, March 19, 1875 [hereafter CPC 1875], reprinted in Episcopado y gobierno en México: cartas pastorales colectivas del episcopado mexicano, 1859–1875, Alfonso Alcalá and Manuel Olimón, eds. (Mexico City: Ediciones Paulinas, 1989), 293–338.

57. CPC 1875, 298.

58. Carta pastoral que el Ilmo. D. Pelagio Antonio Labastida y Dávalos dirige, 11–12.

59. The Christian World, edited by Rev. S. W. Crittenden and Rev. Henry M. Baird, Vol. 24, January-December 1873 (New York: American and Foreign Christian Union, 1873): 332–336.

60. Pellegrinaggio spirituale in Itali nel settembre 1873 (Bologna, Italy: Istituto Tipografico, 1873), 8–16. The Italian reads: “. . . ad adver pietá a tante misere genti, che en questi tempi piu che mai refiutano gli insegnamenti della Chiesa.”

61. Pellegrinaggio spirituale in Italia, 16–24. The quoted fragment is found on page 16.

62. Pellegrinaggio spirituale in Italia, 24–31. The quoted fragment is found on pages 29–30.

63. Pellegrinaggio spirituale in Italia, 6–7.

64. I have found very little evidence that the spiritual pilgrimage was performed as a formally organized practice outside of Italy and Mexico. News of the pilgrimage did surface in newspapers in the US and Spain, but only after the practice had already gotten underway in Italy. See El Consultor de los Párrocos (Madrid), September 4,1873; La Regeneración (Madrid), September 4, 1873; The Christian World 24, January-December 1873, 332–336; and the Morning Star and Catholic Messenger (New Orleans), September 21, 1873. The editors of the Morning Star and Catholic Messenger interpreted the pilgrimage as an individual, private act, though they also reported that the Catholic Union of Buffalo had organized nightly religious services for pilgrims during the final decade of the event and lamented that other US Catholic organizations had not done the same. See Morning Star and Catholic Messenger, September 28, 1873.

65. Clark, “The New Catholicism,” 35.

66. Clark, “The New Catholicism,” 21–22.

67. Carta pastoral que el Ilmo. D. Pelagio Antonio Labastida y Dávalos, Arzobispo de México, . . . el 27 de marzo de este año, 6.

68. Carta pastoral que el Ilmo. D. Pelagio Antonio Labastida y Dávalos . . . el 27 de marzo de este año , 7.

69. Camp, Roderic Ai, Crossing Swords: Politics and Religion in Mexico (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 260–263Google Scholar.

70. As per canon law, the archbishop had the right to call the suffragan bishops of his province to provincial councils, hear ecclesiastical cases of the second appeal, and intervene in a limited fashion in the affairs of a suffragan diocese in extraordinary circumstances. In practice, however, the archbishop seldom had occasion to exercise such powers, and Mexico's high clergy was notoriously jealous of its diocesan autonomy.

71. Itinerario para una peregrinación espiritual que se practicará por los fieles católicos, 1874, AHAM, caja 88, exp. 41, fols. 2–50. The quoted fragment is found on page 1.

72. Interestingly, Neve filed for and was granted copyright of the pamphlet. See La Voz de México, August 14, 1874. For evidence of coordination between Neve and the archdiocese of Mexico, see Archdiocesan Secretary, Mexico City, to Ignacio Montes de Oca, Ciudad Victoria, September 11, 1874, AHAM, caja 88, exp. 41, fol. 68.

73. The Italian pamphlet privileges flexibility and ease of practice, allowing Catholics to perform the journey “in a house, a private room, or a church building.” See Pellegrinaggio spirituale in Italia, 3–4.

74. Itinerario para una peregrinación espiritual, 1874, 5.

75. Itinerario para una peregrinación espiritual, 1874, 10.

76. For brief discussions of Labastida y Dávalos's travels in Europe, Asia, and the Holy Land, see García Ugarte, Poder político y religioso, Vol. 2, 1011–1015; Tapia Méndez, El siervo de Dios, 69–73; Elogio fúnebre y otras piezas encomiásticas del Illmo. Y Exmo. Sr. Dr. Don Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos, Arzobispo de México, por el obispo de San Luis Potosí (Mexico City: Imprenta de Ignacio Escalante, 1891), 30–37.

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88. El Pájaro Verde, November 2, 1874.

89. Entry for October 2, 1874, fol. 239, AHAM, Libro de Gobierno Eclesiástico, Asuntos Comunes, caja 176, libro 3, 1874, fol. 239.

90. Entry for October 3, 1874, fol. 242; entry for October 5, 1874, fol. 244; entry for October 8, 1874, fol. 258; entry for October 13, 1874, fol. 270, AHAM, Libro de Gobierno Eclesiástico, Asuntos Comunes, caja 176, libro 3.

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97. Vicente Fermín, Oaxaca, to Archdiocesan Secretary, Mexico City, August 17, 1874, AHAM, caja 88, exp. 41; Ignacio Árciga, Morelia, to Archdiocesan Secretary, Mexico City, August 20, 1874; Benigno Campos, Chilapa, to Archdiocesan Secretary, Mexico City, August 19, 1874.

98. José María del Refugio, Zacatecas, to Archdiocesan Secretary, Mexico City, August 19, 1874, AHAM, caja 88, exp. 41.

99. Ignacio Montes de Oca, Tula, to Archdiocesan Secretary, Mexico City, September 11, 1874, AHAM, caja 88, exp. 41.

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104. Peregrinación espiritual en el mes de octubre del presente año, edicto para la publicación de las gracias pontificias concedidas por Nuestro Santísimo Padre, el Sr. Pio IX, para las Iglesias mexicanas en su Breve de 21 de marzo último (León: Tipografía de Monzón, 1874), 7–8.

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