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Often appears with: religious persecution and toleration · religious conversion efforts · prayer and worship · heresy, orthodoxy, and schism · christian preaching and catechesis · abolition of human sacrifice
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During the Ave Maria prayers at a cross on a sand-hill, Cortés has Bartolomé de Olmedo explain Christianity to Teuthlille and Quitlalpitoc, urging them to abandon idols, stop human sacrifice, and erect crosses and images of the Virgin.
elevated sand-hill. While we were all on our knees before it, and repeating the Ave Maria, Teuthlille and Quitlalpitoc inquired why we thus humbled ourselves so greatly before that pole. Cortes immediately turned to Bartolome de Olmedo, and remarked to him: "This is a good opportunity, father, to give these people some notion of our holy religion through our interpreters." This father Olmedo accordingly did in a man…