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NTCC honor scholars Luke McCraw, Michelle Calderon, Raul Leija, Perla Guzman, Vanessajane Bayna, and Neida Perez recently traveled to SMU for research on the upcoming Honors Northeast/Webb Society film “Traveling Preachers of East Texas.” COURTESY PHOTO
There were only two priests to cover 90,000 square miles of territory. Missionaries who tried to slip through from the outside were threatened, robbed, and arrested.
The Stalinist Soviet Union in 1937? Mexico in 1920, after the Calles Law attempted to undermine the Roman Catholic Church? The answer is . . . Texas, in 1829. At that time, the Baptist minister, Joseph Bays languished in prison, and…