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Yolanda Margarita López was born on November 1, 1942, in San Diego, California, [4] to Margaret Franco and Mortimer López. [2] She was a third-generation Chicana. [5] [6] Her grandparents migrated from Mexico to the United States, crossing the Río Bravo river in a boat while avoiding gunfire from the Texas Rangers. [7]
Painting Virgin of Guadalupe, c. 1700, featuring a crown on the Virgin's head, later removed. Indianapolis Museum of Art. One of the first printed accounts of the history of the apparitions and image occurs in Imagen de la Virgen Maria, Madre de Dios de Guadalupe, published in 1648 by Miguel Sánchez, a diocesan priest of Mexico City. [38]
The Basilica of Santa María de Guadalupe, officially called Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Santa María de Guadalupe (in English: Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe) is a basilica of the Catholic Church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary in her invocation of Our Lady of Guadalupe, located at the foot of the Hill of Tepeyac in the Gustavo A. Madero borough of Mexico City.
The Banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe or the popular name for the Hidalgo's Banner is a piece from the National Museum of History of Mexico (MNH). It consists of a piece of cloth painted in oil with the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, on each side of which there are two shields, signs and, at the bottom, flowers painted with the same technique, and is characterized by two additional triangles ...
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Escudo de Guadalupe Hidalgo.svg licensed with Cc-by-3.0, GFDL . 2011-05-10T01:04:17Z Sarumo74 504x723 (437370 Bytes) {{Information |Description ={{en|1=Coat of arms of the municipality of Guadalupe Hidalgo (today Gustavo A. Madero) in the Federal District of Mexico, based on the description of Museum and Library and National Insigne ...
To Lopez, La Virgen de Guadalope is more than a religious symbol. She is a public figure and a symbol of her culture, community and family. La Virgen also served as symbols in art work for the Chicano Movement and the Women’s Liberation Movement in Mexico which Lopez cites as further support that La Virgen is not only a religious symbol. [8]
In Cuaron's screen print, Virgen de la Sandía (1996), La Virgen de Guadalupe is depicted as a nude woman standing on a crescent–shaped moon at the center of the art piece. [31] The disrobed religious figure is surrounded by a watermelon with red, orange, yellow, and white glow. [ 31 ]
Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (1474–1548), [a] also known simply as Juan Diego (Spanish pronunciation: [ˌxwanˈdjeɣo]), was a Nahua peasant and Marian visionary.He is said to have been granted apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe on four occasions in December 1531: three at the hill of Tepeyac and a fourth before don Juan de Zumárraga, then the first bishop of Mexico.