Connections between Spanish Christianity and Mexican Traditional Religions Spanish missionaries struggled to eradicate all forms of Mexicans’ traditional religion. The painting portrays a Catholic priest instructing two Mexican children while another priest shelters a group of children and wields a cross to protect them from the diabolical creatures seeking to tempt them to embrace evil. Even Mexicans who converted to Christianity continued to express their spirituality in traditional ways.
The Granger Collection, New York.