English: Identifier: mexicohistoryofi00wrig

Title: Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: Wright, Marie Robinson, 1866-1914 Subjects: Publisher: Philadelphia, G. Barrie & sons [etc., etc.] Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Text Appearing Before Image: exico. TheChrist Church, Episcopal, Trinity, Methodist Episcopal and San Lorenzo forEnglish speaking Catholics. The legends of a country often have a more real and actuating influence on itspeople than does its history. The miraculous or wonderworking thread woven intothe tale appeals more forcefully than the soberer facts of very truth. The touchof mystery chains the interest while it seems to silence the spirit of questioning.Mexico is rich in legends, and their best lore is perpetuated in the many shrines. Of all the shrines of Mexico, the most sacred and venerated is Our Lady ofGuadalupe. Here is the Christian shrine to the Mother of the Saviour; andhere, too, the Aztecs tendered homage and worship to Tonatzin, who to them was CHURCHES AND CHARITIES 243 the Mother of Gods. The Christian legend tells that in 1531, a pious Indiannamed Juan Diego was on his way from the village of Tolpetlac to attend massat Santiago Tlaltelolco and passing around the hill of Tepeyacac, he heard sweet

Text Appearing After Image: CHURCH NEAR COYOACAN. voices singing; terrified, he looked up and saw a lady who bade him listen toher: he should go to the bishop and tell him that she willed that a temple in herhonor should be built on that hill. The figure vanished, and Diego did hercommand, but the bishop sent him away, giving no credence to his tale. Re-turning to the place of the vision, Diego found the lady awaiting him and hetold her of his interview with the bishop. She bade him to return to the placethe next day, Sunday. Diego returned accordingly and for the third time thevision greeted him, and he was commanded to repeat his former message to thebishop, who, still incredulous, required some convincing token of the truth of hismessage; at the same time he sent two servants to watch Juan Diego. On thelatters approaching the hill he was lost to the view of the servants and passinground the side of the hill he saw the lady, to whom he stated the bishops re-quirement. She commanded him to come again the next d

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