Plate 61: El cerro de El Cubilete: comienzo de la agitación Cristera, 11 de enero de 1923 (from the portfolio Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana)

Artist Alberto Beltrán (Mexican, 1923 - 2002)

Publisher Taller de Gráfica Popular (Mexican, founded 1937)

Dateprinted 1947

Mediumlinocut

ClassificationsGraphic

Credit LineGift of the Don Pierce Estate, 2015

Object number2015.29.94

DescriptionThe apostolic representative being carried on sedan to the monument of Christ the King. The beginning of the Cristero agitation.
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Historical text from the accompanying booklet reads as: Fue el clero el heredero directo de los “científicos” en su inútil propósito de restablecer instituciones que felizmente habían sido ya liquidadas muchos años atrás. Los sacerdotes comenzaron a agitar en diversas formas –rumores, levantamientos, calumnias, etc.- y en 1923, un jefe extranjero de la iglesia, Monseñor Philippi, violando las leyes constitucionales, dirigió la erección de un monumento religioso en el cerro de El Cubilete, Guanajuato. Alberto Morales Jimenez.

Translation: The direct legacy of the Porfiriato cientificismo (Porfiriato scientificism) was the clergy whose impractical intention was to restore institutions that fortunately, had already been eliminated several years earlier. Priests began to incite rumors, uprisings, and slander. In 1923, in Guanajuato a foreign head of the church Monsignor Philippi violated constitutional laws and directed the construction of a religious monument on the mountaintop of El Cerro del Cubilete (Dice Cup hill). Translated by Aída Wester, Intern 2017.

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