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[*] posted on 12-11-2010 at 01:44 PM
LA VIRGEN DE GUADALUPE-holiday Sunday


This weekend is the Virgen de Guadalupe holiday here in Mexico .... here is some wikipedia history - Two accounts published in the 1640s, one in Spanish and the other in Nahuatl, tell how, during a walk from his home village to Mexico City early on the morning of December 9, 1531, the peasant Juan Diego saw a vision of a young girl of fifteen or sixteen, surrounded by light, on the slopes of the Hill of Tepeyac. Speaking in the local language, Nahuatl, the Lady asked for a church to be built at that site in her honor, and from her words Juan Diego recognized her as the Virgin Mary. Diego told his story to the Spanish bishop, Fray Juan de Zumárraga, who instructed him to return and ask the Lady for a miraculous sign to prove her claim. The Virgin told Juan Diego to gather some flowers from the top of Tepeyac Hill. It was winter and no flowers bloomed, but on the hilltop Diego found flowers of every sort, and the Virgin herself arranged them in his tilma, or peasant cloak. When Juan Diego opened the cloak before Zumárraga on December 12, the flowers fell to the floor, and in their place was the Virgin of Guadalupe, miraculously imprinted on the fabric.




and following is a very interesting article:

http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/1404-la-virgen-de-guadalu...

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[*] posted on 12-11-2010 at 08:28 PM


Lovely story- alot of places around MX "peal"their bells all day on Sunday and si', they are loud!
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