Profanacion de las reliquias de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe

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An engraving of Our Lady of Guadalupe appears above the left column of text on the recto, and is signed 'J. Engberg, Mex.' Between the main text of the story and the prayer to the Virgin of Guadalupe on the verso is an engraving of Juan Diego seen from behind, facing the apparation of Guadalupe on Tepeyac Hill. The text is comprised mostly of a story about Maria Ignacia Banderas, wife to Lucas Cordero of Apulco. On a trip to Mexico City, Lucas visits the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe and returns to his wife with several relics from the shrine. During his absence, Maria has been socializing with Protestants and rejects Lucas's gifts, destroying them and throwing them into the fire. According to the story, a priest recovers the items miraculously undamaged by the fire, and Maria is punished, becoming blind, deaf, and contracting leprosy. Her family shuns her because of her illness and after four years of suffering, Maria repents. Overnight she is restored to health. The text concludes by encouraging the tale to be told across the country to encourage people to pray to Our Lady of Guadalupe for her intercession. The bottom of the verso concludes with a prayer to the Virgin of Guadalupe.

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Profanation of the relics of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Date Created

1908

Creator

Jose Guadalupe Posada

Publisher

Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Subject

Broadside|Mexico|Popular Devotion

Catholic Studies|Graphic Communications|Latin American Languages and Societies

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