Long colorful commentary on Juan Diego, the Virgin of Guadeloupe, and These Times, from Clueless Christian, the blog of a Sri Lankan-born physician who traveled to Mexico this summer, and tells the story well, locating Luther, the Aztecs, and all of us, in sacred history.
The Aztecs were finally defeated in 1531, a few months before Henry the Eight formally initiated the Anglican schism with the Roman church. Seventy four percent of the Aztec people died in war, famine, slavery, and of European diseases for which they had no immunity. The end of the world had come indeed. Yet, in the midst of the world’s ending, the Resurrection was proclaimed to Juan Diego, a 57 year old Nahuatl peasant convert. The same year that the Aztec defeat was completed, the impoverished and (by the standards of the time) elderly peasant was on Tepeyac hill...
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