(Ebook) Message of Guadalupe by Gillian Rae ISBN B073GZZ2XK

(Ebook) Message of Guadalupe by Gillian Rae ISBN B073GZZ2XK

Mexico has more public holidays than any other country in the world, butwith the possible exceptions of Christmas and Easter, none is celebratedwith more fervour than the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.On 12th December each year, thousands of people gather in or in frontof the beautiful basilica in a suburb of Mexico City which is dedicated tothe patroness of Mexico. Masses are said, there are processions anddisplays, and rich and poor alike cross the vast concourse on their knees toseek the blessing of the Virgin.On this day, all over Mexico, even in the smallest villages, Mexicanshonour Our Lady of Guadalupe.They know her by many names: the Queen of Mexico; ‘la Indita’, thelittle Indian lady; ‘la Morena de Tepeyac’, the dark lady of Tepeyac; or eventhe familiar ‘la Lupita’, which, roughly translated, means the littleGuadalupe.Indeed, the deeply Catholic Mexicans are very familiar with theirQueen. She is an essential part of the Mexican identity, and her image iseverywhere - on the walls of homes and offices, in cars, buses and taxis,roadside shrines, and, of course, on the medals to be found round the necksof young and old.It is the image of the Blessed Virgin as she appeared at Tepeyac in1531, with dark skin, Indian features, small, delicate hands clasped inprayer, and sad eyes. Sad, perhaps because the Mexico she came to helpwas at that time a very troubled country.