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Anahuac

CHAPTER V
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She told him to go to the bishop, and tell him to build her a temple on the place where she stood, giving him a lapful of flowers as a token.

When the flowers were poured out of the garment, in presence of the bishop, the miraculous picture appeared underneath, painted on the apron itself.

The bishop accepted the miracle with great unction; the temple was built, and the miraculous image duly installed in it.

Its name of "Santa Maria de Guadalupe," was not, as one might imagine, taken from the Madonna of that name in Spain (of course not!), but was communicated by Our Lady herself to another converted Indian.

She told him that her title was to be _Santa Maria de Tequatlanopeuh_, "Saint Mary of the rocky hill," of which hard word the Spaniards made "Guadalupe,"-- just as they had turned Quauhnahuac into Cuernavaca, and Quauhaxallan into Guadalajara, substituting the nearest word of Spanish form for the unpronounceable Mexican names.


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