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Article: Our Lady of Resistance: the Virgin of Guadalupe and contested constructions of community in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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- Journal of the Southwest
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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In 1692, Spanish conquistadors entered Santa Fe in the reconquest of the current state of New Mexico. With them they brought an image whose potency had spread throughout colonial Mexico, the Virgin of Guadalupe. The first documented apparition of this Mexican Virgin Mary took place in 1531 north of Mexico City at Tepeyac, where she appeared to an indigenous Catholic convert, Juan Diego (Meyer and Sherman 1995, 186). Devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe has increased over the past several centuries, and today she is one of the most revered Catholic figures in the Americas. The Virgin of Guadalupe--deity, icon, and patron saint of Mexico and the Americas--embodies fluid ...