Abstract
It appeared highly unlikely that Francisco Javier Clavijero, S.J., would ever return to the fatherland from which a royal decree had banished him in 1767. But in August, 1970, amid an outpouring of public praise and official tribute, the Jesuit scholar's remains were repatriated to his native Mexico after almost two centuries in an Italian grave. Contradictory though it may seem in a country with a long record of anticlericalism and a strict adherence to the separa tion of church and state principle, Clavijero's apotheosis as a national hero is not surprising. A major contributor to the Indianist cult from which Mexican nationalism derives its
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