COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Luján, Jerome (American santero, born 1964)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
2010
Title:
Bendito Miguel Pro
Title:
Blessed Miguel Pro
Inscription:
Note affixed to back by artist:|"At 11 p.m. on November 22, 1927 as Fr. Pro walked from his cell to the courtyard and the firing squad, he blessed the soldiers, knelt and briefly prayed quietly. Declining a blindfold, he faced his executioners with a crucifix in one hand and a rosary in the other and held his arms out in imitation of the crucified Christ and shouted out, 'May God have mercy on you! May God bless you! Lord, Thou knowest that I am innocent! With all my heart I forgive My enemies!' Before the firing squad were ordered to shoot, Pro raised his arms in imitation of Christ and shouted the defiant cry of the Cristeros, "Viva Cristo Rey!" - "Long live Christ the King!" When the initial shots of the firing squad failed to kill him, a soldier shot him point blank. The Cristeros became more animated and fought with renewed enthusiasm, many of them carrying the newspaper photo of Pro before the firing squad.|Beatification|Fifty-two years after Pro's execution, the Pope visited Mexico, was welcomed by the President, and celebrated open-air Masses before thousands of people (an act that would have been a crime during Pro's life and was still technically illegal at the time of the pope's visit, though unenforced). At his beatification on September 25, 1988, Pope John Paul II honored Fr. Pro with these words: 'Neither suffering nor serious illness, neither the exhausting ministerial activity, frequently carried out in difficult and dangerous circumstances, could stifle the radiating and contagious joy which he brought to his life for Christ and which nothing could take away. Indeed, the deepest root of self-sacrificing surrender for the lowly was his passionate love for Jesus Christ and his ardent desire to be conformed to him, even unto death.'"
Location name:
Denver
Location name:
Colorado
Materials display:
paint on carved wood (plant material)
Material name:
paint
Material name:
wood (plant material)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Accession number:
RU0853
Measurements display:
35.6 x 30.5 x 16.5 cm
Santo Subject:
Cristo Crucificado, Crucifijo (Crucifix)
Santo Subject Type:
Divine Subjects
Feast Day:
Good Friday
Note:
The death of Christ.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED