Christo Redentor

Abstract

"The . city of Rio de Janeiro, the former capital of Brazil, is dominated by the statue of Christ the Redeemer-Christo Redentor. Towering 125 feet above the summit of Mount Cor~ovado, which is i!self 2,330 feet high, it is impossible to avmd the overshadowmg presence of this powerful, pleading figure. Only low cloud can hide it from view. Yet, even when ?bstructed _in this w_ay the statue itself, rising above the clouds IS bathed m sunshme, a symbol of Christ the Redeemer in His ascended glory, waiting and willing the salvation of 'the people of the great land on which the feet of the statue stand, a people from whom He has been hidden for so long by the clouds of a degenerate and debased Roman Catholicism"