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The Cross of the Angels (Asturian: Cruz de los Ánxeles, Spanish: Cruz de los Ángeles) is a pre-romanesque Asturian reliquary donated by Alfonso II of Asturias in the year 808 to the Church of San Salvador in Oviedo, Asturias (Spain). The Cross of the Angels is the symbol of the city of Oviedo.
Players vs. ángeles caídos; Directed by: Ricardo Becher, Nestor Paternostro, Juan José Stagnaro, Raúl de la Torre, Alberto Fischerman (director and screenplay) Written by: Alberto Fischerman: Starring: Luis Barrón, Leonor Galindo, Gioia Fiorentino, Jorge Cedron, Roberto Mosca, Sergio Mulet: Cinematography: Juan Carlos Desanzo: Edited by ...
The Monument to the Fallen (Spanish: Monumento a los Caídos) is a monument in Plaza de España, near the sea front of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.It is one of the several erected monuments across the Spanish geography that serve as memorial to the Nationalist victors in the Spanish Civil War.
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The Fuente del Ángel Caído (Fountain of the Fallen Angel or Monument of the Fallen Angel) is a fountain located in the Buen Retiro Park in Madrid, Spain. The statue that crowns the monument is the masterpiece of Ricardo Bellver who realized it in plaster in 1877 while a 3rd year pensioner in Rome, inspired by verses from Paradise Lost of John Milton (Canto I). [1]
Angela of the Cross Guerrero y González (Spanish: Ángela de la Cruz or María de los Ángeles Guerrero González; 30 January 1846 – 2 March 1932 [2]) was a Spanish religious sister and the foundress of the Sisters of the Company of the Cross [], [3] a Roman Catholic religious institute dedicated to helping the abandoned poor and the ill with no one to care for them.
Part of the larger El Pueblo de los Ángeles Historical Monument, the church's origins date to 1784, when the Spanish founded the Nuestra Señora Reina de los Ángeles Asistencia to support nearby Mission San Gabriel Arcángel. By 1814, the asistencia had been abandoned and a new church was founded in its place by Padre Luis Gil y Taboada.
The original monument was created by architect Carlos Maura Nadal and sculptor Aniceto Marinas y García, and was inaugurated by King Alfonso XIII on 30 May 1919. Republicans dynamited the monument on 7 August 1936 during the Spanish Civil War , due to its religious and political symbolism, and because the Catholic Church in Spain supported the ...