'Stronger than Ever': Remnants of the Third Convention

Journal of Latter Day Saint History 10 (1998): 1, 8-11

5 Pages Posted: 20 Jan 2013

Date Written: 1998

Abstract

In the mid-1930s Mexican Mormons held a series of conventions to express dissatisfaction with estrangement from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. After the Third Convention many Latter-day Saints in the Central Valley of Mexico separated from the LDS Church and remained independent for nearly a decade. Historians had previously reported that a schism within the Third Convention led by the author Margariot Bautista had fizzled and nearly disappeared. The author reports his surprising ethnographic discovery during the summer of 1996 of a thriving community of 700 followers of Bautista in Ozumba, Mexico calling themselves El Reino de Dios en su Plenitud.

Keywords: Mormon, Mexico, Margarito Bautista, Third Convention, Colonia Industrial, Ozumba, socialism, United Order, polygamy

Suggested Citation

Murphy, Thomas, 'Stronger than Ever': Remnants of the Third Convention (1998). Journal of Latter Day Saint History 10 (1998): 1, 8-11, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2203606

Thomas Murphy (Contact Author)

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