Our Lady of Guadalupe

miraculous that Catholic’s believe in regarding Mary is Marian apparitions. A Marian apparition is a supernatural appearance of the Blessed Mother Mary here on earth. The three most famous accounts of Marian apparitions occurred in Lourdes, Fatima, and Guadalupe. The city of Lourdes is located in southern France, and was the home to a young girl named Bernadette. While searching for firewood, the young fourteen year old saw the Blessed Mother in a grotto by the river. The appearances became a…

me of my mom.Also trying to get bit more or talking amazingly about their child.I love those moments beacuse I understand where they come from.This year I got hired in Juma which is a job but also helps us with college.The way it works is that half our my paycheck automatically goes into the bank.I sell icream in statdiums like Levis and Avaya satdiums.This job has helped me understand how hard it is get money and made feel grateful that my parents go to work everyday to support my family.It has…

Miguel Gonzalez’s piece titled The Virgin of Guadalupe depicts the Virgin of Guadalupe in the center, with a smaller image in very corner and a beautifully decorated frame encompassing her image. She is shown looking down with her head a bit tilted to the left, a pose that characterizes her and distinguishes her from different virgins. She is in the center, with a beige background that most likely represents Juan Diego’s tilma, where her image appeared for the first time. Emanating from her…

themselves with similar topics, but each one has a different approach to delivering their arguments and organizing their ideas. While Gonzalez takes a more individual approach to analyzing the truth behind Malinche, Romero compares her to La Virgen de Guadalupe. Both of these writers take an approach that sees Malinche as someone who got the short end of the stick. In Gonzalez’s essay, “Malinche Triangulated, Historically Speaking,” she argues that the popular portrayal of Malinche is…

related illness after being overworked. The editors of the magazine included a quote from her father where he lamented that “the doctor said that my daughter’s cause of death is the same cause that will kill all of us poor people until we become aware of our enslavement.” In other instances, anarchist men operating in Mexico during the summer months of 1911 often wrote about “las pobres mujeres” (the poor women) who approached the men with their children looking for some form of relief or…

said if you are foreign to the country consuming the food can be harmful, but that is myth that does not have an evidence to support its claim(Torres, 2003). One major practice in Mexico is paying your respects to the Virgin of Guadalupe (Smith, 2003). Virgin of Guadalupe is considered their patron saint who appeared to the Indian Juan Diego on December 12 400 years ago. Celebration occurs in Guadalupean Basilica (Smith,…

When discussing portrayals of what defines true womanhood some begin the conversation with the commonly gender specifics terms which are called Marianismo and Hembrismo (Greer; Asencio). Scholars have defined Marianismo as “derived from the Catholic belief in the Virgin Mary—ascribes superior morality and spirituality to the Latina woman, who is considered able to endure suffering more than men. Her traditional femininity is portrayed as submissive, religious, modest, and humble, and a woman who…

The ways that the Nahua theater produced plays, it is easy to see how they could have inadvertently helped preserve pagan beliefs of the Nahua. The use of allegorical figures in the plays, such as the Final Judgement, could have been very confusing to viewers and actors. Using people dressed up as Penance, The Holy Church, Sweeping, Time, and Death to convey ideas that are not material or human could have added to pagan ideas that previously existed. Another preexisting idea of the native people…

The image of La Virgen has been present throughout most of our lives. From our homes to the murals in our communities. Growing up in a Hispanic/ Latino community it’s the norm to see her image either in tattoos, candles, shirts, posters, cars as well as in our churches and grocery stores. Historically, speaking her image has been used politically for instance, Cesar Chavez used her image, during the Mexican War for Independence her image was used as well. The image of La Virgen has evolved…

The rebozo in the novel Caramelo had significant meaning and symbolism for the characters and the Mexican culture. What is the rebozo? What does it mean? How important is it to Mexican culture and the women in the novel? Celaya is born of a Mexican immigrant father and a working-class Mexican American mother. She finds herself feeling forced to choose sides. Celaya’s grandmother, Soledad, is the central secondary character on whom all others react. She is the one who is affecting all of those…