Zorro: Before Daredevil or Nightcrawler, the first superhero ever was Catholic | Crux:
"In most of these incarnations, and particularly in the best ones, Zorro’s milieu is Catholic, and he himself is not only Catholic, but expressly allied with the Church, which sides with the oppressed poor against tyrannical local authorities — a motif that goes back to ‘The Curse of Capistrano.’ One of the few recurring characters in the Zorro mythos is a Franciscan friar from McCulley’s novel, Fray Filipe or Father Felipe, often an ally of Zorro and a family friend of his alter ego, Don Diego [de la] Vega."
