Explores the religious world of the young urban Catholics who conspired to kill Mexican President Álvaro Obregón in 1928.

Robert Weis is Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado and the author of Bakers and Basques: A Social History of Bread in Mexico (2012).

Introduction; 1. Catholics and anticlericals: from reforma to revolution; 2. The enforcement of anticlericalism; 3. Sugar Catholics; 4. Imprudent youth; 5. Martyrdom; 6. Trial; Conclusions.