Guadalupe (Mexico City)

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Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe .

Villa de Guadalupe is a northern district of Mexico City on Mount Tepeyac . It is home to what is currently the largest pilgrimage in the world with around 20 million pilgrims annually . In 1848 the Mexican-American War ended here with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo .

Place of pilgrimage

Our Lady of Guadalupe
In the new basilica

In Villa de Guadalupe is the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe. It is the most important shrine in Mexico and one of the most important Marian shrines in the world. The starting point of the pilgrimage is the apparition of St. Juan Diego on Mount Tepeyac on December 9, 1531. When Juan Diego was with the bishop, inexplicably an image of Mary, Mother of God, appeared on his cloak.

A church was built on the site of the apparition. As the subsoil sank, the basilica had to be closed to visitors and pilgrims. The new Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe , designed by the Mexican architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, which was consecrated in 1974 and opened in 1975, is very impressive in terms of its size and open architecture. It has 10,000 seats, can accommodate up to 40,000 visitors and is therefore one of the largest churches in the world. The relic of the mantle with the miraculous image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is in the basilica. Pope Paul VI In 1976, the church was raised to the rank of minor basilica because of its importance as a pilgrimage church .

Patronages of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Our Lady of Guadalupe is the Patroness of Latin America, especially Mexico. In 1754 Benedict XIV proclaimed Our Lady of Guadalupe to be the patroness of Mexico with the Breve Non est quidem and marked the festival on December 12th with its own form of mass and office. Leo XIII. extended the celebration of the festival to all Latin American countries. On his behalf, the Archbishop of Mexico Alarcón y Sanchez de la Barquera crowned the miraculous image on October 12, 1895. Our Lady of Guadalupe is also considered the patron saint of the unborn.

literature

  • Paul Badde : Mary of Guadalupe. How the appearance of the Virgin wrote world history . Ullstein, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-550-07581-2 .
  • DA Brading: Mexican Phoenix. Our Lady of Guadalupe: Image and Tradition Across Five Centuries . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2001.
  • Virgil Elizondo: Guadalupe. Mother of a New Creation . Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York 1997.
  • Gisela Ermel : Enigmatic Tilma von Guadalupe , Argo-Verlag, Marktoberdorf 2002, ISBN 3-9807812-9-1 .
  • Francis Johnston : He didn't do that to any people. The miracle of Guadalupe . Christiana 1998, ISBN 3-7171-0882-4 .
  • Enrique Krauze: Mexico, Biography of Power. A History of Modern Mexico 1810-1996 . HarperCollins, New York 1997
  • Richard Nebel : Santa María Tonantzin Virgen de Guadelupe , New Journal for Religious Studies, Volume 40, Immensee 1992, ISBN 3-85824-072-9
  • William B. Taylor: Drinking, Homicide, and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages . Stanford University Press, Stanford 1979.
  • Jacques Lafaye : Quetzacoatl and Guadalupe. The Formation of Mexican National Consciousness, 1531-1813 . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1976 (with a foreword by Octavio Paz).
  • Stafford Poole : Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531-1797 . University of Arizona Press, Tucson 1995.
  • Lars A. Fischinger: The miracle of Guadalupe . Silver cord 2007. ISBN 978-3-89845-174-1 .

Footnotes

  1. ^ Pilgrimage record in the Mexican basilica of Guadalupe . Catholic News Agency, December 14, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Guadalupe (Mexico)  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 19 ° 29 ′ 4 ″  N , 99 ° 7 ′ 2 ″  W.