Indeed, the Blessed Virgin Mary entered the very life stream of Central America and became an inextricable part of Mexican life and a central figure to the history of Mexico itself. To this date the most important religious celebration in Mexico and Central America is December 12, the feast-day of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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Our Lady of Guadalupe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Our Lady of Guadalupe (Spanish: ) is a celebrated 16th-century icon of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ. The image, also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe (Spanish: ) represents a famous Mari...
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The appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe to the Aztec Indian Juan Diego in December of 1531 generated the conversion of Mexico, Central and South America to Catholicism. ... The Virgin of Guadalupe is literally intertwined with both the History of the Catholic Church in the new world and of Mexico itself.
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The Story of Our Lady of Guadalupe; (based on the original account) ... All of this weighed heavy on the heart of Bishop Zumarraga, whom history now knows as the "Protector of the Native People." He wondered if Juan Diego's story was the answer to his prayers.
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OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE: HISTORICAL SOURCES ... The topic of Guadalupe became the subject of heated discussion, particularly from the 18th century on. From that time, in the history of Guadalupe, polemic was to prevail over documentary research.
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"Arms Open Wide ... Gather 'round while we tell you a story ... Our Lady of America...
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The clergy, secular and regular, has been remarkably faithful to the devotion towards Our Lady of Guadalupe, the bishops especially fostering it, even to the extent of making a protestation of faith in the miracle a matter of occasional obligation.
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All written narrations about the apparitions of the Lady of Guadalupe are inspired by the Nican Mopohua, or Huei Tlamahuitzoltica, written in Nahuatl, the Aztec language, by the Indian scholar Antonio Valeriano around the middle of the sixteenth century.
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Catholic indian was not believed so he went back to Our Lady who sent him back to the Bishop. To make Juan Diego reveal that he is telling the truth that he sees the Mother of God the Bishop asked for a sign. ... The wonders of Guadalupe...
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