*Ø* Blogmanac September 6 | Virgin of the Remedies
Virgin of the Remedies (Fiesta of Nuestra Senora de los Remedios), Mexico
Our Lady of Health, or La Purisima
[Article condensed from http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/guadalup.html]
Long before the Puritans settled in the New World and brought with them the form of Protestantism that still profoundly influences American culture, the Roman Catholic Church believed that the Americas were meant to be, and would become, Catholic.
Most Rev. Richard J Cushing, DD, LL D, Archbishop of Boston, writes of the patronage of the Virgin Mary over America:
“The first official proclamation of it was made in 1643 by the King of Spain … but her patronage was implicit in the bull of Alexander VI in which, in 1493, he ordered the Spanish Crown in virtue of holy obedience to send to the newly discovered lands learned, God-fearing, experienced and skilled missionaries to instruct the inhabitants in the Catholic faith and imbue them with good morals. The Holy See endorsed Spain's claim to the whole western hemisphere with the exception of Brazil under these conditions …” Source
Conquistadors such as Hernán Fernando Cortés and the Catholic missionaries who followed, appear to have innately believed that the indigenous people of America were to be subdued, converted and plundered.
After the small but devastating army of Cortés had seized and killed the local nobles of Cholula, Mexico, set fire to the city, and killed an estimated 15,000 to 30,000 of the inhabitants, and before destroying almost the entire city of Tenochtitlan and killing some 120,000 to 240,000 Aztecs there, they experienced ‘the sad night’.
Cortés and his men pillaged the great 40-acre Aztec temple to the great feathered serpent god, Quetzalcoatl, and placed a doll-sized wooden statuette of the Virgin Mary on the altar. Naturally enraged, on the night of July 20, 1520 the Aztecs, drove Cortés and his men from the town, and this night was henceforth called by the conquistadores ‘la noche triste’, the sad night. The conquistadores attributed their good fortune in escaping to this little Vergin de los remedios.
Madonna and the cactus
The statuette (which some reported seeing actually taking up arms against the conquered race), disappeared for twenty years, until, Anneli Rufus tells us in The World Holiday Book, the Virgin Mary herself appeared to an old Indian and told him where the Madonna image could be found. Another source tells us that it was found by an Otom' Indian chief called Juan Ce Cuautli ( One Eagle) under a maguey (cactus) plant ...
Read on at http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/guadalup.html
Virgin of the Remedies (Fiesta of Nuestra Senora de los Remedios), Mexico
Our Lady of Health, or La Purisima
[Article condensed from http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/guadalup.html]
Long before the Puritans settled in the New World and brought with them the form of Protestantism that still profoundly influences American culture, the Roman Catholic Church believed that the Americas were meant to be, and would become, Catholic.
Most Rev. Richard J Cushing, DD, LL D, Archbishop of Boston, writes of the patronage of the Virgin Mary over America:
“The first official proclamation of it was made in 1643 by the King of Spain … but her patronage was implicit in the bull of Alexander VI in which, in 1493, he ordered the Spanish Crown in virtue of holy obedience to send to the newly discovered lands learned, God-fearing, experienced and skilled missionaries to instruct the inhabitants in the Catholic faith and imbue them with good morals. The Holy See endorsed Spain's claim to the whole western hemisphere with the exception of Brazil under these conditions …” Source
Conquistadors such as Hernán Fernando Cortés and the Catholic missionaries who followed, appear to have innately believed that the indigenous people of America were to be subdued, converted and plundered.
After the small but devastating army of Cortés had seized and killed the local nobles of Cholula, Mexico, set fire to the city, and killed an estimated 15,000 to 30,000 of the inhabitants, and before destroying almost the entire city of Tenochtitlan and killing some 120,000 to 240,000 Aztecs there, they experienced ‘the sad night’.
Cortés and his men pillaged the great 40-acre Aztec temple to the great feathered serpent god, Quetzalcoatl, and placed a doll-sized wooden statuette of the Virgin Mary on the altar. Naturally enraged, on the night of July 20, 1520 the Aztecs, drove Cortés and his men from the town, and this night was henceforth called by the conquistadores ‘la noche triste’, the sad night. The conquistadores attributed their good fortune in escaping to this little Vergin de los remedios.
Madonna and the cactus
The statuette (which some reported seeing actually taking up arms against the conquered race), disappeared for twenty years, until, Anneli Rufus tells us in The World Holiday Book, the Virgin Mary herself appeared to an old Indian and told him where the Madonna image could be found. Another source tells us that it was found by an Otom' Indian chief called Juan Ce Cuautli ( One Eagle) under a maguey (cactus) plant ...
Read on at http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/guadalup.html
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