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the book produced an immediate international sensation and has since been translated into more than twenty-five languages
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In this well received volume
Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain Tom Boellstorff the book produced an immediateExamines the many iterations of a story of child martyrdom in colonial Mexico. A cornerstone of the evangelization of early New Spain was the conversion of Nahua boys, especially the children of elites. They were to be emissaries between Nahua society and foreign missionaries, hastening the transmission of the gospel. Under the tutelage of Franciscan friars, the boys also learned to act with militant zeal. They sermonized and smashed sacred objects.
