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Nuestra Seņora de Guadalupe
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.
The image that you see everywhere of the "Aztec Virgin" is based on the Tilma de Juan Diego - the garment where the image
first miraculously appeared.
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