Sea of Faith for the Virgin of Guadalupe

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Once again, like each December 12, the center of this port, turned into a sea of faith in honor of the virgin of Guadalupe.

Since the first second of this day, the first sector of the city, transformed itself once again, like every year, in a sea of faith for the virgin Our Lady of Guadalupe

Rivers of people, alone or in family, punctually attended to participate in this great event of enormous tradition for the Catholic world here.

It is the sea of people that makes whirlpools, with the only aim of going into the church to bless and give thanks for the favors obtained this year.

As well as doing the indispensable minimum so that next year is even better.

This tradition extends for all day today, in each corner of the country, all the pilgrimages under the same precept, render cult to the virgin Mary.
Story that has its origin in our country, with the mention of Juan Diego, and the apparition of the virgin Mary in the hill of Tepeyac.

The first mention that was made of Juan Diego was in the book Nican Mopohua, published by Luis Lasso de la Vega and attributed to Antonio Valeriano, who wrote the Nican Mopohua in the decade of 1550, that is to say, seventeen years after the apparitions of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

San Juan Diego was of the Chichimecan indigenous ethnicity. Purportedly he was born on April or May 5 th of 1474 in Cuautitlán, in the neighborhood of Tlayácac, region that belonged to the realm of Texcoco. It was baptized by the first missionary Franciscans around the year 1524.

Juan Diego was a man considered as pious by the Franciscans settled in Tlatelolco, where there was no convent yet, but there was what is known as a doctrine, where mass and catechism were held. Juan Diego made a big effort each week, coming out "very early from the Tulpetlac village, which was where he lived in that moment, and going southward until reaching the hill of Tepeyac.

According to the tradition, on Saturday December 9th 1531, very early in the morning in the hill of Tepeyac he listened to the singing of the Mexican bird tzinitzcan, announcing the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe. She appeared to him four times between December 9th and 12th of 1531 and entrusted him to tell the then bishop, fray Juan de Zumárraga, that in this place she wanted a temple to be constructed. The Virgin of Guadalupe ordered to Juan Diego to cut some roses that had mysteriously just flowered in the top of the hill to take them to the bishop Zumárraga in his ayate.

The tradition refers that when Juan Diego showed the bishop the beautiful flowers during a freezing winter, the image of the Virgin miraculously appeared, later called Guadalupe by the Spaniards, printed in the ayate. The prelate -who in his writings did not leave any proof of any of the facts- ordered the construction of a hermitage where Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin would live for the rest of his days guarding the ayate (current chapel of natives).

 

 

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