What Role Does Virgin Mary Play In Mexican Culture

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Prayer, ritual, commitment, loyalty, and dedication; minute interpretations of a larger emotion. What is devotion? Devotion is commonly expressed through a large spectrum of emotional, psychological and spiritual feelings. It is committing ones time, energy and soul to a matter, person, idle, belief or cause. Around the world, devotion is practiced by human beings in diverse methods and behaviors. To better depict devotion, one can observe Mexican culture, for numerous generations the Mexican race has undoubtedly dedicated their totality to religion and curanderismo (traditional medicine). For centuries Mexican people have devoted their time, effort and money to their religion; Catholicism. Virgin Mary has played an important role

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