Francis Johnston This relatively short book is widely regarded as the best on the apparition of Our Lady in 1531 in Mexico City. Tells the complete story, from the Conquest of Mexico and the conversion of the Aztecs, through the development of the devotion and into the modern era. Shows that the picture is not a painting, but more like a photograph, and how under normal circumstances it should have disintegrated in 20 or 30 years. Describes several miracles that saved it and the remarkable power of the devotion. An enthralling story and an essential devotion.
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AWESOME BOOK!!!!!,
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This review is from: The Wonder of Guadalupe: The Origin and Cult of the Miraculous Image of the Blessed Virgin in Mexico (Paperback)
If you want to know some history about the Virgin of Guadalupe, I recommend that you buy this book. It has very good details about the history of the tilma of Juan Diego. GREAT BOOK.
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Most Signficant Event of the New World (For Starters),
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This review is from: The Wonder of Guadalupe: The Origin and Cult of the Miraculous Image of the Blessed Virgin in Mexico (Paperback)
Sometime I would like to go into more detail about this remarkable short book, but pressed for time, I want to post something to adorn the all too small reader response (thus far).
If you read this and are not persuaded or fundamentally moved at your depths by the profusion of detail about the history of this miraculous image of the Virgin Mary, including the bombing of the Tilma in the Cathedral in Tepeyac in the days of the pre-Calles regime, that blew out windows and seriously warped a wrought iron altar crucifix but didn't even break the glass protecting the miraculous Tilma of St. Juan Diego, then you are, like some images of Quetzlcoatl, made of stone. Read the book, and get back to me, I've read it many times since buying it in the gift shop of Mission San Juan Capistrano in 2000, and am flabbergasted by Mr. Johnston's exploration of key cultural events in the transition between the old order of the Aztecs, and the New Life brought by the Franciscans. Especially, in the opening pages, the vision ~near death experience?~ of Princess Papantzin, sister of Montezuma, who escaped from the crypt where they were prematurely burying her, alive, to tell of a luminous being with a cross on its forehead, that led her down to the sea and showed her ships that would arrive in not many years, that were emblazoned with the same Cross. There is a distinct upside to the Conquista, and this book tells the story. Princess Papantzin became one of the first converts to the new Religion, along with a "pobrecito" Nahuatl named Juan Diego. Read the story, too, if you can find it, from a book of John Steinbeck's "Uncollected Short Stories of..." published in, of all places, Tokyo, for his glimmering cameo of these events, "The Miracle of Tepeyac" and you will begin to see why Our Lady of Guadalupe is the key and binding event in Mexican history (see wikipedia article to be more sure)and why also the little Nahuatl Princess, aka Empress of the Americas, is the Queen of these lands we inhabit. Roses of Castille await !! ~~John Ervin Founder, Native Intelligence Agency
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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a great intro to Our Lady of Guadalup,
This review is from: The Wonder of Guadalupe: The Origin and Cult of the Miraculous Image of the Blessed Virgin in Mexico (Paperback)
This book is a concise and charming primer to Our Lady of Guadalupe for someone without understanding of the topic. It details life in the Aztec empire, has some important historical and cultural details of Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest, and then, quite importantly, details the way in which various enemies of the Church and of the Mexican people have tried to destroy faith in her intercession but were always unsuccessful.
This book increases and importance as time goes on with the Latinization of the US and rapid Hispanic population growth and influence here in the Southwest. The fact is that Mexico has a wonderful and beautiful history completely apart from the US - and this history centers on a person: the Blessed Virgin, Our Lady of Guadalupe. Read it and re-read it - the details are quite interesting and the presentation is quite charming and accessible.
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