The Cristo de Tacoronte is a statue of Jesus Christ embracing the cross. It is located on the main altar of the Santuario del Cristo de Tacoronte in Tacoronte, on the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). The Christ is the saint patron of Tacoronte. The statue depicts a naked man clutching the cross alive despite bleeding profusely from his open sores on the hands, feet, knees and back, plus a lance on the side, and whose left foot crushes a skull around to which was wound a snake with an apple in his mouth. He was later allowed public devotion to this representation of Christ.