Photographic Print. Statue of Guadalupe, Queen of Mexico in Mission Delores on 16th Street at Delores, San Francisco.
The altar to Our Lady Guadalupe, Patron Saint of the Americas, decorated with Roses. A beautiful statue in turquoise, red and gold with an angel coming out from under her. In 1531, a poor Aztec Indian named Juan Diego was walking on
Tepeyac Hill near Mexico City where he encountered a beautiful lady
surrounded by a bright ball of light. The lady said she was the Virgin
Mary and told him to go to the Archbishop and tell him she wanted a
church to be built at Tepeyac Hill. The bishop did not say yes so the
lady appeared again and told him to ask the bishop again. The bishop did
not believe him and wanted a sign from the lady as proof of who she
was. The lady told Juan to go to the hill where he would find flowers
growing and to bring them to her. It was desert with a barren hilltop
but he found a bloom of Castilian roses not native to Mexico. She
arranged them in his poncho and told him to go as her ambassador, to
show them to no-one else but the bishop and say with this sign she
requested that a church be built on that site and this time he would
believe all that he told him. When he opened his poncho, the bishop fell
to his knees because on the poncho was imprinted a picture of the
Blessed Virgin Mary as Juan had described her. So a basilica was built
on the site.
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