Note 272 — LECTURE VI. The Lines of Development of Primitive Religions.
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The locally famous Maria Candelaria. At the head of fifteen thousand warriors, she defied the Spanish army for nearly a year, and, though defeated, was never captured. Her story is scantily recorded by Vicente Pineda, in his Historia de las Sublevaciones Indigenas en el Estado de Chiapas, pp. 38-70.