ormation by reclaiming religious buildings for his own and encouraging teachers at the socialist schools to focus on the deeds of Obregon, Zapatista, and Carranza. The schools were established in the churches and building which had been used for religious services and ceremonies. Furthermore, the anticlerical minority of the vanguard party began to encourage the burning of religious icons and symbols. In particular they burned all images of the Virgin Mary, the woman who had given strength to poor and given them content of their social condition. Becker asserts that La Purisma "represented something furtive," (78) and the images lead them "to fashion unspoken, perhaps unspeakable goals" (78) that could ultimately mislead the men and sabotage the revolutionary projects.
             However, not all members of the CRMDT held strong anti-clerical views of the Church.
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