Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe standing on a crescent moon with roses, starry cloak, and angel. She is surrounded by four vignettes showing her discovery, veneration, and revelation. Includes native American seeing the vision, revealing it to others, praying before it, and showing a cloak with her image on it to a kneeling man. Also includes an eagle wearing a crown and holding a snake in its beak sitting on a cactus.
Source creator:
Horta, Pedro de
Source Title:
Informe medico-moral de la penosissima, y rigorosa enfermedad de la epilepsia, que a pedimento de la M.R.M. Alexandra Beatriz de los dólores ....
Source place of publication:
En Madrid
Source publisher:
En la Oficina de Domingo Fernandez de Arrojo, Calle del Carmen
Source date:
1763
notes:
A vision of the Virgin of Guadalupe, with native American features, appeared to Juan Diego, a native American, on a hill named Tepeyac near the site of a temple to the Aztec goddess Tonantzin (Mother of the People) in 1531. Archbishop Zumárraga, the first archbishop of Mexico, accepted the vision when Juan Diego presented his cloak, or tilma, with the Virgin's image on it filled with out-of-season roses. The symbol of the eagle refers to the Aztecs, who looking for a homeland, were guided to a place where an eagle perched on a cactus ate a snake.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities; Indigenous peoples
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject headings:
Guadalupe, Our Lady of; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Apparitions and miracles--Mexico
