This article explores the significance of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico, as a symbol of beauty, peace, and justice. It delves into the historical context of her apparition, her connection to the Aztec deity Tonantzin, and her role as a comfort to the poor and suffering.
As pilgrims from Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Helotes made their way to their sister parish on El Paso Street on San Antonio’s West Side, some of us driving past honked at the pilgrimage. They knew it was friendly, a signal acknowledging our shared devotion.
It was Thursday, the feast day of nuestra señora, the patron saint of Mexico, the empress of the Americas, the mother figure whom the faithful believe appeared in 1531 to an indigenous man named Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, Nahuatl for “talking eagle.” In the Catholic story, the apparition happened more than a decade after the Spanish invaded and began destroying a city that even they marveled at and admired — Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City. What’s left is still a marvel. ELAINE AYALA: Catch up with Elaine’s podcast 'Nosotros' on YouTube The brown-skinned mother spoke to Juan Diego in his ancient language and asked him to tell the bishop to build a church on the site where she appeared multiple times, and where Aztecs once worshipped another feminine deity known as Tonantzin. So, for many, Guadalupe is Tonantzin and Tonantzin is Guadalupe. For more than just Mexicans, she is the most beautiful, most revered of Marian figures. Through art, she has transcended religion to a broader faith in a most divine way. But at her core, she’s the sacred indigenous mother of the poor and the suffering, an apparition that came after the Spanish conquest — conveniently for the Spanish crown — and made their power more possible. Their destruction, repeated around the world, wasn’t their only sin. Guadalupe appeared to St. Juan Diego on the site of a destroyed temple, where the Aztecs made pilgrimages to seek comfort. Juan Diego, who’s existence is as debated as is this story, also made his way there to seek solace for his own losses and worries. He was suffering, as were his people. Today, Guadalupe comforts the world as a symbol of beauty, peace and justice. Always justic
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