Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past two weeks thousands of bare-footed Mexican Indians have made pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Virgin of Guadaloupe. This may seem of slight interest to those whose heritage is Protestant and whose interests are commercial, but in the village just outside the City of Mexico a pageant is being played in the spirit and with the trappings of the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages. If one would understand the power and the immense spiritual fascination of this great tradition then turn and follow this medieval pilgrimage to the gaudy and artificial church of Guadaloupe...
...mass in Tlaltelolco. His name had been changed at baptism to Juan Diego. As he passed by the barren, rugged hill of Tepeyac, site of old Aztec shrines which the Spaniards had overthrown, there appeared to him, amid rainbow colors and heavenly music, a beautiful woman. It was the Virgin Mary! She addressed Juan Diego as hijo mio (my son), told him to go at once to the bishop and say that she wished a church built on the hill. Juan Diego went, but the Bishop did not believe him. Three days later the Virgin appeared again to Juan, told...
...exaggeration." By last week, some $800,000 had been spent in alterations, and clerics and pilgrims were ready for the opening ceremonies of the 400th anniversary fiesta: reconsecration of the altars, high mass, a view of the tilma, its holy image and the bejewelled Sacred Golden Crown of the Virgin, quoted...
Because the Indians regard the Virgin of Guadalupe as their own special patroness (possibly identified also with pre-Christian goddesses), their celebration of Dec. 12 is exceedingly lively. Says Terry: "Foreigners find this unique, but trying. The unhygienic and ignorant Indians overrun the village to such an extent that the problem of preventing pestilence is a serious one. . . . The ch. is usually packed to suffocation: the devotees bring habits and an entomological congress as varied as they are astonishing, all the ch. decorations within reach are kissed to a high polish and thoroughly fumigated later, and all breathe freer when...
...binoculars to gaze at the til ma above the high altar. After High Mass there began a solemn procession through the Basilica.* At its head was the Sacred Golden Crown, covered with brilliants, emeralds, rubies and turquoises. Suddenly, just before it was to be hoisted in place above the Virgin's portrait, sharp-eyed Archbishop Diaz saw two brilliants tumble to the altar. Archbishop Diaz stooped, puffed, fumbled, handed the brilliants pontifically to an attendant, and the fiesta went...