Mexican Phoenix (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David A. Brading
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: History and religion
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: Berlin, Tubingen, Griesbach, and Bad Petersal, Germany; Paris and Enfer, France; London; Brussels; and Seville
- Principal Characters: Juan Diego, Miguel Sanchez, Servando de Mier
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Religion and spirituality
- Subjects: Ghosts or apparitions, Christianity, Catholics or Catholic Church, Mexico or Mexicans, Central America or Central Americans, Visions, epiphanies, or revelations, Latin America or Latin Americans, Saints or sainthood, Church or churches, Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
- Locales: Paris, France, London, England, Berlin, Germany, Seville, Spain, Brussels, Belgium
That Mary, the mother of Jesus in the Christian belief system, really appeared to an Indian peasant, Juan Diego, Mexico, in 1531, is difficult to document. However, Mexicans rich and poor, clergy and lay, Indian, Creole, and Spanish, have from the sixteenth century to the present believed that this miraculous apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe happened. Further, they have believed that an image of Mary miraculously appeared on the lining of Diego’s cloak at the time of the apparition. David A. Brading, professor of Mexican history at Cambridge University, looks at the documents and...
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