Rebecca Escarciga Lehman has been returning to Mount Cristo Rey for 20 years.
The border city has been a focal point for anti-immigration politicians and the site of a shooting that killed 23 people. Yet, its residents remain unified and proud of their connections to Mexico.-- a mountain located in Sunland Park, New Mexico, that overlooks El Paso, Texas, the border wall, the United States and Mexico.
But before Lehman made arrangements to go on a pilgrimage to Mount Cristo Rey, her aunt got seriously ill.Ruben Escandon, Sr. and Esperanza Salas Escandon are pictured at a family event in an undated photo. Tia Guera died shortly after but for the past twenty years, Lehman has been making the pilgrimage to Cristo Rey each year -- only missing the trip when she was pregnant and in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic led to the cancellation of the annual event.Esperanza Salas Escandon, or Tia Guera holds Rebecca Escarciga Lehman's son Wendel S. Kuhn, IV on his first visit to El Paso, Texas.
According to Escandon, the monument was inspired by Fr. Lourdes Costa, a local parish priest in El Paso’s Smeltertown, who had a vision of erecting a monument to Christ in 1933 as he looked out his back window. Initially, a wooden cross was erected, but Costa commissioned a friend, sculptor Urbici Soler, to create it.
Escandon’s grandparents grew up in Smeltertown, a former residential community in El Paso, where hundreds of volunteers carried supplies up the mountain to build the statue’s base and labored for years to build the road that made it possible to place the statue of Christ at the mountain’s peak.
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