Grito de Delores

This day is Mexican’s Independence Day when Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest known as Father Hidalgo, made the first cry for independence for the country from Spain. He made a speech in Dolores, and took up the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe, a Roman Catholic image of the Virgin Mary as she appears to Juan Diego, an indigenous Mexican believer who was later sainted by the church. His speech started an uprising again New Spain, starting the Mexican War of Independence which finished in 1821.