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Mexican Saint Statue
Our Lady of Guadalupe
I bought this statue from a man who used to live in Mexico City and make these there, but he moved to Chihuahua City and is now in the same business. Note the eyelashes, which are real hair. These are exquisitely fashioned and hand painted with great care, by a true artisan. I have a whole lot of these. We make these nichos right here at Fausto's Art Gallery, in the "Concha" style, which came into popularity in Medieval Spain and became a dominant motif in Mexican colonial design.
The Virgin of Guadalupe is the most famous saint in Mexico - the patron saint of Mexico, in fact. Known as the “Virgen Morena” - the brown skin virgin- Guadalupe was supposedly first encountered on the Hill of Tepeyac in what is now Mexico City only a few short years after the Spanish Conquest, by an Aztec Indian, Juan Diego, who was told to go and tell the bishop to build a temple on the spot where he first saw her. It happens that this spot is the same location where the temple of Tonantzin (“Our Lady” in the Aztec dialect, Nahuatl) was located. Tonantzin, on the other hand, was the recreation of an earlier Mother Goddess of the Indians who had been in the Valley of Mexico long before the arrival of the Aztecs.
From Fausto's Art Gallery in Ojinaga, Chihuahua.
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