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FLACSO, Ecuador. The Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (Spanish: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Portuguese: Faculdade Latino-Americana de Ciências Sociais or FLACSO) is a graduate-only university and inter-governmental autonomous organization for Latin America dedicated to research, teaching and spreading of social ...
The Glorioso Cristo de Chiapas (Glorious Christ of Chiapas), also known as the Cristo de Copoya, is a 62-metre (203 ft) tall monumental cross located in the Mexican state of Chiapas. The cross, which features a profile of Jesus Christ in its interior, was designed by Mexican architect Jaime Latapí López.
Theresa: The Body of Christ (Spanish: Teresa, el cuerpo de Cristo) is a 2007 biopic written and directed by Ray Loriga and starring Paz Vega as the title character, Saint Teresa of Ávila. It is a Spanish–British–French co-production.
Shortly after Valverde's mass, the priest Eleuterio de María Santísima Ferrer promoted the placement of a commemorative plaque. The idea was consolidated to also add an image of the Sacred Heart . The project was accepted by the bishop, who attended the place on March 12, 1920, to lay the first stone and on April 11 to celebrate the first ...
Santuario de los Mártires de Cristo Rey is a religious monument located in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico.This building was erected in honor of the Mexican martyrs who lost their lives during the Cristero War, an armed conflict between 1926 and 1929 (although some clashes continued until the early 1930s) in response to the anti-religious policies of the Mexican government.
The event can attract up to 150,000 people from Veracruz and other parts of Mexico. [18] The Señor de Tila is a Cristo Negro images with a link to the Esquipulas image, sharing the same feast day of January 15, the same sanctuary design and many of the same rituals followed by pilgrims. However instead of made from wood, it is made from a ...
Christ of the Sacred Heart (Spanish: Cristo del Sagrado Corazón) is a 75-foot-tall (23 m) statue of Jesus displaying his Sacred Heart located above the town of El Morro, six miles south of the city of Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico. The statue is situated directly across the highway from the coastal Las Rocas Resort and Spa, from which an ...
The project was conceived in 1973 by José Rodriguez Tenorio, and is the biggest Christ statue in North America; and third biggest in Latin America, only smaller than the statue of Christ The Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Cristo de la Concordia in Cochabamba, Bolivia. In the sanctuary of Christ of the Noas, there is a religious resort ...