Mexican Phoenix : Our Lady of Guadalupe : image and tradition across five centuries

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Mexican Phoenix : Our Lady of Guadalupe : image and tradition across five centuries

Title remainder

Our Lady of Guadalupe : image and tradition across five centuries

Statement of responsibility

D.A. Brading

Creator

• Brading, D. A

Subject

• Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
• Geschichte
• Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Guadelupe
• Marienverehrung
• Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Apparitions and miracles -- Mexico
• Marienverehrung
• Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Guadalupe, Our Lady of
• Unsere Liebe Frau von Guadalupe <Gnadenbild>
• Mexico -- Religious life and customs
• Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ -- Apparitions and miracles -- Mexico
• Mariaverschijningen
• Mariaverering
• Mexique -- Vie religieuse
• Marie, Sainte Vierge -- Apparitions et miracles -- Mexique
• Guadalupe Hidalgo

Language

eng

Summary

In 1999 Pope John Paul II proclaimed Our Lady of Guadalupe a patron saint of the Americas. According to oral tradition and historical documents, in 1531 Mary appeared as a beautiful Aztec princess to Juan Diego, a poor Indian. Speaking to him in his own language, she asked him to tell the bishop her name was La Virgen de Guadalupe and that she wanted a church built on the mountain. During a second visit, the image of the Virgin miraculously appeared on his cape. Through the centuries, the enigmatic power of this image has aroused such fervent devotion in Mexico that it has served as the banner of the rebellion against Spanish rule and, despite skepticism and anticlericalism, still remains a potent symbol of the modern nation. In Mexican Phoenix, David Brading traces the intellectual origins, the sudden efflorescence, and the theology that has sustained the tradition of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Brading also documents the interaction of religion and patriotism, and describes how the image has served as a banner both for independence and for the Church in its struggle against the Liberal and revolutionary state

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

232.91/7/097253

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

BT660.G8

LC item number

B67 2001

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography