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Often appears with: temple conversion to chapels · religious persecution and toleration · justice as a virtue · heresy, orthodoxy, and schism · delayed compliance with religious reforms · christian preaching · abolition of human sacrifice
Usually: speech or oration (1) · exhortation (1)
Cortes regroups Cholulla’s chiefs and explains Christianity, demanding the end of idolatry, human sacrifice, and temple abominations, even as the leaders promise destruction but keep postponing it.
in the recent attack. Our general, however, merely inquired who the rightful successor was according to their laws; and on being informed the late cazique's brother, he appointed him governor. As soon as the town was again filled with people, and the markets frequented as usual, Cortes assembled the papas, chiefs, and the principal inhabitants, and explained to them the nature of our holy religion, and showed them t…