La Virgen De Guadalupe Our Lady of Guadalupe. Juan Diego An early Indian convert to Catholicism. His...
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La Virgen De Guadalupe Our Lady of Guadalupe. Juan Diego An early Indian convert to Catholicism. His native name was Cuahtlatoatzin, which could be translated
Juan Diego An early Indian convert to Catholicism. His native
name was Cuahtlatoatzin, which could be translated as one who talks
like an eagle or eagle that talks Between 1524- and 1525 he was
converted and baptized, as well as his wife receiving the Christian
name Juan Diego and his wife the name of Maria Lucia.
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Apparition of the Virgen de Guadalupe On December 9, 1531 Juan
Diego was walking by the mount of Tepeyac. Which is where the
Aztecs worshiped the mother of gods, Tonantzin. He heard music and
saw a young women outlined by a radiant glow. She had indigenous
features and clothes and spoke to him in Nahualt.
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Apparition of the Virgen de Guadalupe She called him "Juanito,
Juan Dieguito", "the most humble of my sons", "my son the least",
"my little dear". She told him that she was the mother of the one
great God, and asked him to tell the bishop of Mexico, Juan de
Zamarraga, to build a chapel to her on the site where she appeared.
Diego relayed the message to the bishop, but his story was not
heard, and he was asked to return another day.
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She appeared to Juan Diego a second time, and was asked to seek
the bishop again. Juan Diego did see the bishop, his story was
heard and questioned, but was not believed. The bishop wanted a
sign (proof).
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Juan Diego tried to go back to Tepeyac, but found that his
uncle was extremely ill. The next morning, December 12, as he was
going to Tlatelolco to call a priest to come to his uncles side,
she appeared to him. Juan Diego told her what was wrong. She told
him not to worry about his uncle that he was not going to die. She
sent him to go cut fresh flowers from the top of the hill, and that
he would take the flowers to the bishop as proof of her
existence.
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Diego followed the instructions, went to the hill and cut some
roses. He went back to the virgen and then she arranged them in his
cloak and sent him to the bishop.
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When Diego unfolded his cloak in front of the bishop, the roses
fell to the floor, and there on the cloak was the image of the
Virgen de Guadalupe. Now the bishop believed and a church was built
right on the mount of Tepeyac.
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Description of Guadalupes Image Sun in the background Belt
around her waist Moon at her feet
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Significance of La Virgen de Guadalupe At the time of these
events, only one decade after the Aztec Empire had fallen to
Cortes, Spaniards had begun to convert people to Christianity. But
during the first years of Spanish rule, missionaries who arrived to
Mexico were having little success convincing the people to abandon
their old gods and convert.
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Significance of La Virgen de Guadalupe Diegos story soon
changed the missionaries fortunes. As the story spread, La Virgen
de Guadalupe grew to be respected by the indigenous population
because: She had appeared wearing traditional indigenous dress and
speaking the native language. These conversions possibly were aided
by the fact that Diegos description of the mother of God was
strikingly similar to the way the Aztecs portrayed their goddess
Tonantzin. She became the symbol of Indian Catholicism.
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Tonantzin and La Virgen de Guadalupe Tonantzin was literally
called our holy mother (indentified with the moon) Virgen de
Guadalupe the mother of God. Guadalupe appeared at what was once
the temple of Tonantzin in the mount of Tepeyac.
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Controversy about the Story The story of the apparition of the
Virgen de Guadalupe never happened, it was a story used just to
convert indigenous into Christianity. Connecting indigenous
religion with Christianity. Story used as a tool of conversion.
Story is false Bishop Juan de Zamarraga was not in Mexico during
the event. The current portrait of the Virgen is not the
original.
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Controversy about the image: The Mystery of her eyes
1929-Marcue Alfonso discovers an image of a man in the eyes of the
Virgen de Guadalupe image. 1951, Jose Carlos Salinas Chavez,
rediscovere the image of what appears to be a human bust in the
right eye of the Virgen, and then in the left eye. In 1979, Jose
Aste Tonsman- investigated the Virgens eyes and this is what he
found:
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13 People in both cornias: (in order of discovery) A figure of
an indigenous servent who is sitting down. The image of an old man-
bishop of Zarrmago Another image of person with Spanish features- a
translator to the bishop. On the right corner is the image of an
African slave women. (Maria) All the images are looking at the same
direction towards another image being that of Juan Diego. In the
pupils- an indigenous family ( a couple with several kids) show the
importance of family?
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Patron Saint of Mexico Regardless of the controversies: In
1745, the Vatican recognized Diegos vision as a miracle. Two new
basilicas were later built, one in 1904 and the latest in
1976.