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After Mexico gained its independence from Spain, the Spanish friars left Mexico and the Southwest and for many years there weren’t enough priests to visit all of Mexico’s small villages and rural areas.
The Spanish Catholic missionaries worked hard to convert the indigenous populations of New Spain, and any non-Christian belief that was not acceptable to the Spanish friars was often attributed to sin, evil, the devil, or witchcraft.
The origins of Los Penitentes have been debated for years, but it is likely they were heavily influenced by the Franciscan Third Order, who were the friars in New Mexico until Mexico separated from Spain in 1821.
Franciscan friars, such as the 16th-century Bishop Diego de Landa, were dispatched from Europe to spread the Christian faith throughout the peninsula, though they were met with some resistance — any similarity between the early Yucatecan churches and military fortresses is not accidental.
This 19th-century curiosity, like a similar chapel in the town of Évora farther north, is constructed of the skulls and bones of monks, unearthed from the friars’ cemetery.