Jose Sanchez Del Rio Accomplishments

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Jose Sanchez Del Rio was born in Sahuayo, Michoacán, Mexico on March 28, 1913. It is not shown in what city, but Jose Sanchez Del Rio lived in Michoacan, Mexico before he died. Jose Sanchez Del Rio died on February 10, 1928. Jose Sanchez Del Rio died at a young age of 14 years old.

The main accomplishment of Jose Sanchez Del Rio was when he was when he joined the Cristeros, but was captured and tortured by government officials. Even though he was being tortured to abandon his faith, he refused to. To try to make Jose Sanchez abandon his faith, government officials cut the bottoms of his feet off and made him walk to the cemetery in the town. Even after torturing him to this point by cutting him with a machete and cutting the bottoms of

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