Cristo Rey (Silao)

Cristo Rey is a statue on top of Cerro del Cubilete, ('Dice Cup Hill'), a 200 metres (660 ft) mountain in Silao Municipality in Guanajuato, Mexico.

The current structure and base for the 23 metres (75 ft) statue were created by artist Nicholas Mariscal in 1944 to honour the struggle of the Cristeros.

The former Mexican President Vicente Fox states that the statue serves as a "rebuke to the suppressors of religious freedom" who sought to quash the Church during the persecution of Christians in Mexico during the first half of the twentieth century.

Shortly after Valverde's mass, the priest Eleuterio de María Santísima Ferrer promoted the placement of a commemorative plaque.

One can also go by means of a cobbled road that surrounds the hill until you reach an upper roundabout, which functions as a viewing point.

Every first Sunday of October, the monument to Christ the King is visited by thousands of pilgrims or faithful, coming mainly from the cities of León, Irapuato, Celaya, Mexico City; and the states of Michoacán, Jalisco, Aguascalientes, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo, Zacatecas, Estado de México, Tlaxcala, Puebla, among others.