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Cristo Rey (English: Christ the King) is a statue 26 meters tall located in the Cerro de los Cristales (Hill of the Crystals) in the village of Los Andes, west of the city of Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. [1] The hill is so named because of the large amount of quartz that could be collected in the surrounding area.
Our Lord of the Miracles of Buga (Spanish: Nuestro Señor de Los Milagros de Buga), also known as the Lord of the Miracles (Spanish: Senor de Los Milagros), is a statue of Jesus Christ in the form of a crucifix, said to have come into existence spontaneously and without the work of human hands.
Colección de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá. [3] [4] Pursuant to a commission received from Antonio de Santana, who had received in 1560 an encomienda of the Indians of Suta, a Spanish painter named Alonso de Narváez painted a portrait of the Virgin of the Rosary on a homespun piece of cotton woven by the Indians. [5]
The Spanish conquistadors to the Bogotá savanna, the missionary Friar Domingo de las Casas celebrated the first Holy Mass on August 6, 1538, [3] in a modest chapel of mud and straw roofs, [4] and before a banner that rests on the cathedral, in the place where the first stones were laid for the construction of a church.
The Cundinamarca municipalities are: La Calera, Cáqueza, Fómeque, Choachí, Une, Chipaque, Fosca, Quetame, Ubaque, Guayabetal, and Gutiérrez. The Archdiocese of Bogotá included the entire city of Bogotá until 2003, when the three new urban dioceses of Engativá , Fontibón , and Soacha were created.
Mujer Comprada (purchased woman, woman for sale) is the title of a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the Mexican television network TV Azteca. Cast [ edit ]
Jesús Helguera (May 28, 1910 – December 5, 1971) was a Mexican painter. Among his most famous works are La Leyenda de los Volcanes, La Leyenda, Popocapetl & Ixtaccihuatl, Hidalgo, "Rompiendo las Cadenas", El Aguila y la Serpiente, and Juan Diego y la Virgen de Guadalupe.
When announced, this increased the total number of temples worldwide to 166 and, along with the temple in Bogotá, is the second in Colombia. The temple is in the metropolitan area of Barranquilla , in the oceanside community of Puerto Colombia across from Colegio Alemán, approximately two kilometers west of Barranquilla.