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A little history thread on the Virgin of Guadalupe. Many of us know about the story of St. Juan Diego and the Tilma in Mexico that led to numerous conversions. But their is a broader historical backdrop to this that really sums up "Hispanidad" quite well.
According to an ancient legend, the image was made in a sculpture workshop founded in Palestine in the 1st century by Saint Luke the Evangelist. Centuries later, it was venerated in Churches in Achaia and Byzantium. Later Pope Gregory the Great gave this sculpture to...
Saint Leandro, Archbishop of Visigothic Seville. He placed the image at a hermitage on the outskirts of town. During the Muslim invasion in 711, the Christians of that city deposited it in a box and hid it next to the Guadalupe River at the foothills of the Altamira Mts.
In the 1200s, The Virgin appeared to a herdsmen named Gil Cordero and told him the location of the image, he was instructed to tell the clergy to make a hermitage which they did
King Alfonso XI came across this hermitage for the first time in 1330, when he was hunting. Alfonso XI was entrusted to the Virgin of Guadalupe in the Battle of Salado in 1340, resulting victorious.
Queen Isabel of Castile visited the monastery of Guadalupe about twenty times. The place was a "paradise" of Isabel, who had a great devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe. Isabel first visited the monastery in 1464. After marrying Fernando, the Catholic Monarchs visited many times.
The monastery helped the Reconquest of Granada with the donation of 300 silver marks, 160,000 maravedises, 40 ducats, 1,000 Castilians, ornaments and gold cruets for Christian worship.
In Guadalupe, Spain, Christopher Columbus would meet the Catholic Monarchs (King Fernando and Queen Isabella) right before his departure, in honor of this he baptized one of the islands he landed on with the Name Santa Maria de Guadalupe.
upon his return the first Indians were baptized in the Monastery of Santa Maria de Guadalupe, due to the strong ties that made the Marian invocation of the Virgin of Guadalupe the one that spread the most throughout Hispanic America, at the hands of missionaries
On October 13th 1928 (on the anniversary of Columbus landing in America) Pope Pius XI preformed a canonical coronation under the name Reina de la Hispanidad "Queen of Hispanidad"
