Our Lady of Guadalupe The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531-1797

Name: Our Lady of Guadalupe The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531-1797
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ISBN: 9780816516230

ISBN-10: 0816516235

ISBN-13: 9780816516230

Edition: 1997

Authors: Stafford Poole, Poole

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The devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe,based on the story of apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Juan Diego, an Indian neophyte, at the hill of Tepeyac in December 1531, is one of the most important formative religious and national symbols in the history of Mexico. In this first work ever to examine in depth every historical source of the Guadalupe apparitions, Stafford Poole traces the origins and history of the account, and in the process challenges many commonly accepted assumptions and interpretations. Poole finds that, despite common belief, the apparition account was unknown prior to 1648, when it was first published by a Mexican priest. And then, the virgin became the predominant…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 11/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 325
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English