Fray Servando station

Neighbouring stations

• 4Line 4Candelaria ← Fray Servando → Jamaica

The story behind the icon

The station silhouette is the bust of Friar Servando Teresa de Mier.

A Dominican friar, orator and writer, born in Monterrey (1765-1827), he fought for the independence of our country. In the Constituent Congress of 1824 he defended the centralist form of government. He was the author of Memoirs and of History of the Revolution of New Spain.

Friar Servando first drew attention when, on the occasion of the feasts of the Virgin of Guadalupe, he was entrusted with the official address, in which he claimed that the apparitions recounted by the Indian Juan Diego were a myth; for that he was imprisoned and banished to Spain, from where he fled to London. There he carried out an intense campaign in favour of Mexico's struggle for Independence, in an excellent publication called Letters from an American to a Spaniard, and another entitled The Revolution of Anáhuac.

When Iturbide fell, Friar Servando was elected a deputy to the II Constituent Congress, where he declared himself an enemy of federalism.