From the dust jacket:
Our Lady of Guadalupe is the Patroness of the whole New World–North, South, and Central America. For more than four hundred years the story of how she appeared, in a vision, to a humble Mexican peasant has been a cherished tradition of the Catholic faith.
Miss Parish first became interested in the story when she was living in Mexico, studying archaeology. "Since then," she says, "I've thought and dreamed about it, off and on, for twenty years." Her "dreaming" took the form of research into all the ancient and fragmentary sources of the story itself, some written in the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs, some preserved in material gathered by the early Spanish chroniclers.
Then, from sixteenth-century documents, she reconstructed a complete picture of the times in which the peasant, Juan Diego, lived, and of Mexico City as it was in 1531. The streets, buildings, markets, shops, surrounding countryside, the clothes, food, sights, and sounds of the daily life of Indians and Spaniards–all these are here, as a living background for the lovely, simply told story of the miracle that brought about the building of Mexico City's beautiful Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Jean Charlot is known as one of the world's foremost pictorial authorities on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. His drawings for Our Lady of Guadalupe are faithful in detail and feeling to the time and the people he portrays, and their rich color glows with the effect of light falling through stained-glass windows.
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