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How was Christianity spread in Mexico?

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Catholicism arrived in Mexico with the conquistadors coming to plunder the country, but it took the apparition of Mary in 1531 for the religion to take root. Historians say the Spanish cleverly substituted the Virgin for Tonantzin and employed her to evangelize the indigenous populations

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