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Mexico: A Handbook on the Missions
of the Episcopal Church.
By Frank Whittington Creighton, S.T.D.
Suffragan Bishop of Long Island
Sometime Missionary Bishop of Mexico
New York: The National Council of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, 1936.
Forty miles southeast of Mexico City is the volcano
Popocatepetl
Aztec pyramids at Teotihuacan, thirty miles from the
capital
Among Mexico's ancient ruins is this temple discovered
under the Cindadela
Statue to the last of the Aztec Emperors who defended
the City of Tenoxtitlan against the Spaniards
The Statue of Liberty in Mexico City is one of several
monuments which adorn the streets of the capital
In Mexico City the service of Benito Juarez as Liberator
and constitutional President is remembered fittingly by this
monument.
The stately governmental buildings and broad plazas
add to the beauty of Mexico's capital city.
At Cuantla in the State of Morelas the revolutionary
activities of Emiliano Zapata are commemorated by this statue
Altar and reredos, Christ Church, Mexico City, which
was use as the cathedral by Bishop Aves and Bishop Creighton
St. George's Church, Pachuca, has ministered through
the years to the English-speaking colony in this mining center
A street in Mexico City showing the modern buildings
which line its broad thoroughfares. The Post Office is at the
left
The Rt. Rev. Henry Damerel Aves, first Missionary
Bishop of Mexico, 1904-1923
Students of St. Andrew's Industrial School, Guadalajara,
many of whom look forward to the Church's ministry
Building at Hooker School erected with the B.T.O.
of 1928
The House of Hope at Nopala where Mrs. Sara Salinas
ministers to the blind, the crippled, the infirm, and the ailing
country people
A new patient arrives at the House of Hope to receive
the tender care and ministrations of its Christlike head, Mrs.
Salinas
Esquela Fraternidad at Nopala has trained many young
people as teachers who now serve in government schools
The choir of St. George's Church, Pachuca
Pachuca, where St. George's Church serves English-speaking
residents
The Rt. Rev. Frank W. Creighton, second Missionary
Bishop of Mexico, 1926-1933
On March 6, 1927, in Christ Church Cathedral, Mexico
City, Bishop Creighton ordained five deacons, since advanced
to the priesthood
Bishop Creighton lays cornerstone for a new church
at Santiago Loma--one of several such services witnessing to
the vitality of the work
Calvary Church, Humini, State of Hidalgo, where early
in Bishop Creighton's episcopate a bell was blessed
The Henry Eglinton Montgomery Memorial Infirmary at
the Hooker School, Mexico City
Members of the Congregation at San Martin de las Flores
have organized a band to play at church services and festivals
The Rt. Rev. Efrain Salinas y Velasco, third Missionary
Bishop of Mexico, 1934-
The Church of San Jose de Gracia is one of the oldest
church buildings in Mexico, having been built less than a century
after the Conquest
The Church of San Esteba Martyr, San Sebastian, where
Bishop Salinas y Velasco held a special convocation for the State
of Jalisco in 1935
Clergymen and lay delegates to the annual convocation
of the Missionary District of Mexico. Bishop Salinas is in the
first row
Bishop Salinas y Velasco visits San Miguel Mission,
Mimiapan, State of Mexico
Bishop Salinas y Velasco lays the cornerstone of San
Mateo Chapel, Tecalco
Chuch school, Templo de Jesus in San Martin de las
Flores, an Indian village in the State of Jalisco
A Mexican Churchman provided this chapel for St. Andrew's
School, Guadalajara
Church people of the State of Jalisco gather for their
first regional convocation
Parish hall at San Pedro Martyr built entirely by
the Indian villagers who also provided two-thirds of the necessary
funds
Bishop Salinas y Velasco advances to the priesthood
the Rev. Francisco Aragon, an Indian, trained in St. Andrew's
School and the Philadelphia Divinity School
The Bishop of Mexico with some of his people--the
San Mateo congregation at Tecaclo, State of Mexico
The congregation at Santa Maria Tlalmimilopan, a little
Indian village on a mountain top in charge of the Rev. Samuel
Ambrade
La Santisima Trinidad at Maravillas was built by a
Mexican Churchman whose family have ever been loyal to the faith
Congregation at San Bartolo where the Church has one
of its most attractive and romantic buildings in Mexico
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