Our Lady of Guadalupe Mexico.
Historical Story, Two accounts, published in the 1640s, one in Spanish, one in Nahuatl, tell how, while walking from his village to Mexico City, in the early morning of 9 December 1531 (the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in the Spanish empire), on the slopes of the Hill of Tepeyac, the peasant Juan Diego saw a vision of a girl of fifteen or sixteen years of age, surrounded by light. Speaking to him in Nahuatl, the local language the Lady asked that a church be built at that site, in her honor; from her words, Juan Diego recognized the Lady as the Virgin Mary. Diego told his story to the Spanish Archbishop, Fray Juan de Zumarraga, who instructed him to return to Tepeyac Hill, and ask the Lady for a miraculous sign that proved her claim. The Virgin told Juan Diego to gather flowers from the top of Tepeyac Hill. Although the season was winter, and December was very late in the growing season for flowers to bloom, at the usually barren hilltop, Juan Diego found Castillian roses, which the Virgin arranged them in his peasant cloak tilma. When Juan Diego opened the cloak before Bishop Zumárraga on 12 December , the flowers fell to the floor, and in their place was the Virgin of Guadalupe, miraculously imprinted on the fabric.
it has also been suggested that the name is a hispanized Nahuatl term that the Virgin used for herself.... Coatlaxopeuh (pronounced quatlashshupe), meaning "the one who crushes the serpent".
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