While in many places the Spanish Conquest was brutal ... indeed everything that our little map reveals about the Christianisation of Mexico, is summed up on a colossal scale here at the shrine ...

While in many places the Spanish Conquest was brutal ... indeed everything that our little map reveals about the Christianisation of Mexico, is summed up on a colossal scale here at the shrine ...

The territory which now makes up Mexico was under Spanish rule for some 300 years before gaining independence in the early 19th Century. At the time of the conquest, Spain was a fiercely Roman ...