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The Mormon colonies in Mexico are settlements located near the Sierra Madre mountains in northern Mexico which were established by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) beginning in 1885. [1]: 86–99 The colonists came to Mexico due to federal attempts to curb and prosecute polygamy in the United States.
Martyrs in Mexico: A Mormon Story of Revolution and Redemption. (Provo: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2018). F. LaMond Tullis. Mormons in Mexico: The Dynamics of Faith and Culture. (Provo: Museo de Historia del Mormonismo en Mexico A. C., 1997) F. LaMond Tullis. "Mexico" in Arnold K. Garr, et al., ed. The Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint ...
The Mormon colonies of Northern Mexico : a history, 1885–1912. Xerox University Microfilms. OCLC 1285790. Hartley, William G. (2007). Anson Bowen Call: Bishop of Colonia Dublán. Provo, Utah: Lorna Call Alder. ISBN 978-1-928845-52-2. Romney, Thomas (1938). The Mormon colonies in Mexico. University of Utah Press. ISBN 0-87480-838-3.
The first LDS missionaries in Mexico arrived in 1875 (although the original Mormons came to Mexico in the 1840s in Utah, when it was a Mexican territory). In 1885, 400 Mormon colonists moved to Mexico. In 1993 the Mexican government formally registered the LDS Church. This allowed the church to own property in Mexico.
The modern LDS Church does not use the cross or crucifix as a symbol of faith. Mormons generally view such symbols as emphasizing the death of Jesus rather than his life and resurrection. [43] The early LDS Church was more accepting of the symbol of the cross, but after the turn of the 20th century, an aversion to it developed in Mormon culture ...
The Tijuana Mexico Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Tijuana, México. [4] [5] Completed in 2015, the intent to construct the temple was announced by church president Thomas S. Monson on October 2, 2010, during the church's semi-annual general conference. [6] It is the thirteenth temple built ...
The Mormon pioneers then branched out to pioneer a large state called Deseret, establishing colonies that spanned from Canada to Mexico. Young incorporated the LDS Church as a legal entity and governed his followers as a theocratic leader, assuming both political and religious positions.
Bautista's proselytization as a genealogical missionary meaningfully increased Mexican Latter-day Saints' interest in their family history. [9] Before the LDS Church and its colonies were established in Mexico, a majority of the people did not know much about their ancestors or about genealogy.