Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Nicho with Milagros
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.
We added the milagros and the Virgin of Guadalupe medallion to the frame, which we then applied a coat of patina in order to give the effect of an antique. The nicho is actually a sort of shadow box. It is around 2 inches deep, and it is meant to hang up on a wall, like a picture. The outside dimensions of the frame are 9" by 6". Believers actually venerate these in much the way one would an icon.
From Fausto's Art Gallery in Ojinaga, Chihuahua.
Cost: $15.99
The Aztec Virgin stands in a nice nicho with milagros attached to the frame, and it is constructed in the traditional style. It looks much like a traditional antique 19th Century nicho.
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POB 470
Presidio, TX 79845
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