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Title: Our next-door neighbor: a winter in Mexico
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Haven, Gilbert, Bishop, 1821-1880
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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erouselement, being, like the subjects of the East India Company, a thou-sand to one more numerous than their rulers. How shall they besubdued ? Their priests and worship were gone, but not their faithin both. They had a seat of worship in this spot. An Indian comingover the mountains, seeking for a priest at a church built by Cor-tez, a mile or so from its base, is met by the Virgin, who tells himto build a church to her in that spot. He flees affrighted to thepriest, and tells his tale. It is not idle words to not empty ears,though it is so assumed. He is repulsed by the priest, meets hertwice again, asks a sign, has his soiled blanket filled by her handswith flowers from these barren and burning rocks, which whenpoured out at the feet of the incredulous archbishop are no more flowers, but A fair maiden clothed with celestial grace, even the maiden mother herself. Her flowers had changed to aflowery Madonna, with a bud of a boy in her arms, as on a branch. oX s X o*j n c > 5 -3 w
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1 •-/ /,> i THE VIRGIN OF GUADALUTE. 103 If you doubt this they will show you the greasy blanket with herform upon it, over the high altar at Guadalupe, in a frame of solidsilver, located just where she spread it, and she filled it with her-self. I agreed to accept the miracle if they would show the flowers asfresh to-day as when they were picked. This they could also do;for flowers abound in this latitude, and beautiful enough to turnany dirty blanket into a Madonna. That miracle settled the case for the Indians. They had a se-iiora of their own. Our Lady of the Remedies was a Spanish moth-er. This was an Indian. It was a success. The Virgin of Guada-lupe became the goddess of Mexico. Divine honors were paid toher.. Temples went up everywhere, and shrines in every temple.Her picture on its blanket hangs in every house and hut, above thecounter of the merchant and the bar of pulqui dram-shops, overthe forge and over the bed, here, there, everywhere. Books by thethousand and sermo

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