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Mexico Celebrates Their Independence Day

Posted on September 16, 2018September 17, 2018 by Jennifer McMurray

Mexico celebrates its independence from Spain today, September 16th. The day celebrates the day that Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest known as Father Hidalgo, first called for independence in 1810.

Father Hidalgo gave a speech in the town of Dolores, after which took up the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe, a Roman Catholic image of the Virgin Mary as she appears to Juan Diego, a native of Mexico who later became the first Roman Catholic Saint who was indigenous to the Americas.

This was the beginning of the Mexican revolt against Spain, and this moment is remembered during the Mexican Independence Day as the moment of possibility and of hope.

President Donald Trump of the United States, Mexico’s neighbor to the north, gave his well-wishes to people celebrating Mexican Independence today.

Congratulations to all of our Mexican friends on National Independence Day. We will be doing great things together!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 16, 2018

The header was taken by Ronaldo Schemidt for Getty Images in 2015.

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