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According to old documents found in the General Archive of the Indies (Seville), the arrival of the image of the Virgin of Charity to the mountains of the Sierra del Cobre, in Cuba, took place when an Illescan, Francisco Sánchez de Moya, captain of artillery, received on May 3, 1597 a mandate from King Philip II of Spain to go to the mines of the Sierra del Cobre to defend those coasts from ...
Flores de Mayo (Spanish for "flowers of May") is a festival held in the Philippines in the month of May. It is one of the May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary and lasts for the entire month. The Santacruzan (from the Spanish santa cruz, "holy cross") is the ritual pageant held on the last day of the Flores de Mayo.
"Little Miracles" ends with an extended narrative (pp. 124–129) of a feminist artist, Rosario "Chayo" de León, who at first did not allow images of La Virgen de Guadalupe in her home because she associated her with subservience and suffering, particularly by Mexican women.
Santa Elena: 1566–1570 [9] Ivitachuco at Abosaya [E] Potano: 1704–1706 [10] La Concepción or Santa María de Ayubale: Apalachee: 1655–1704 [11] La Concepción de Atoyquime or Atoquime Jororo: 1693–1697 [12] La Encarnación a la Santa Cruz de Sábacola or Santa Cruz de Sábacola El Menor 30.80585, -84.87636: Apalachicola: 1674–1677 [13]
In 1559, Tristán de Luna y Arellano established a settlement at present-day Pensacola, Florida, as a base for future colonization of Santa Elena, but this mission failed. The French also heard the early accounts and took an interest in the area; in 1562 Jean Ribault came to modern-day Parris Island and set up the short-lived settlement of ...
Angela of the Cross Guerrero y González (Spanish: Ángela de la Cruz or María de los Ángeles Guerrero González; 30 January 1846 – 2 March 1932 [2]) was a Spanish religious sister and the foundress of the Sisters of the Company of the Cross [], [3] a Roman Catholic religious institute dedicated to helping the abandoned poor and the ill with no one to care for them.
Here’s a look at the life of Associate Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. She is the fourth woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
Español: Escudo cuartelado en cruz: 1.º, en campo de plata, una cruz latina con destellos, de oro; 2.º, en campo de sable, un creciente de plata, contornado hacia el jefe (en realidad, creciente en banda); 3.º, en campo de gules, un castillo de oro (en realidad, torre), almenado de tres almenas, mazonado de sable y aclarado de azur; 4.º, en campo de plata, un león rampante de gules ...