Abstract: The objective of this work is to explain the phenomenon of the mobilizations of immigrant communities in Lujan, based on a consideration of the bigger picture in which they took place, including the general context of Argentine Catholicism near the time of the Centennial. As such, it must be noted that Italians were not the only group, nor the first one, that organized processions in Lujan that attracted increasingly greater numbers of participants. Our focus is on the decade of 1910, years in which Catholic processions and demonstrations were ...
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