During a trip to Mexico in 1997, Javier Pablo Olivera Ravasi excitedly chatted with Catholics about the Cristero War that had raged through the heart of their country from 1926 to 1929. Only one problem: No one knew what he was talking about. Because of that unfortunate lack of knowledge about their very own history, Ravasi felt inspired to write about the Cristiada, that great period of…
