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Periodical: La Sombra de Hidalgo

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Sombra de Hidalgo, La.
Periodico semanario, dedicado exclusivamenta ala defensa del Espiritismo.
Justicia, Equidad y Amor
1894--1895 Weekly
Hidalgo, Mexico.
Language: Spanish.
Editor: Hipolito Salazar.
1/1, July 15, 1894-September 15, 1895.
4 pp. One centave each for past issues and 25 centavos each in Mexico City and 50 centavos beyond.

The "defensive" purpose of the journal was noticed in the Banner of Light, November, 24, 1894: "To combat with energy the errors inculcated by bigoted religions; to uphold the banner of liberalism; to oppose with vigor, fanaticism, theocracy and every form of tyranny." It serialized the spirit communication "Roma y el Evangelio" every week and carried the interesting "La Papisa Juana, Su Reencarnacion" on mediums' investigation of a newborn infant. Hemeroteca Nacional de Mexico.

Other Sources:
Issues:Sombra de Hidalgo V1 N1 Jul 15 1894
Sombra de Hidalgo V2 N10 Sep 15 1895
Claude-Generated Themes:   La Sombra de Hidalgo was a Spanish-language Mexican spiritist periodical in the Kardecist mold, its very masthead binding the national memory of Miguel Hidalgo to the espiritista cause. Its pages carry devotional verse to the Creator and the immortal spirit alongside séance reports of messages received through named mediums, presenting mediumship as evidence of survival and moral progress. Like other Mexican espiritista organs of its era it treats spiritism as a reformist science-cum-faith. The tone is at once patriotic, devotional, and didactic.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Spiritism (Kardecist) | Spiritualism