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Celebrating “La Virgen Morena”

6:03 pm By Maegan La Mala · Culture|mexico|Religion · Comments Off

13 Dec 2007

In misas de gallo and processions from Mexico City to New York City, Mexicans everywhere are celebrating La Virgen Morena, La Virgen de Guadalupe, who reportedly appeared before a humble indigenous man named Juan Diego on the Cerro de Tepeyac one December day in 1531. Whether or not you’re a believer, there can be no argument as to the weight of Guadalupe in Mexican culture. She is omnipresent not only in the spiritual sense but in the concrete sense. Her image graces nearly every home, taqueria or bus in the country; anywhere her people are, there goes Guadalupe.

Flickr‘s got a great assortment of images of the Guadalupe celebrations. Here are a few:

“Escenario” by El Pelos Briseno

Blood-crying Virgin on the border

4:50 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico|Religion · 1 Comment

5 Mar 2007

Last week Mala told you about a sighting of the Virgen de Guadalupe that occurred in a baking pan in Texas. La Virgen’s latest trick apparently took place in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, when an image of her allegedly began to shed bloody tears.

According to Univision.com, on Ash Wednesday (also the day of the baking pan incident) the image, which its owner, María Guadalupe Salazar Martínez, keeps in her home (which according to Univision, is “made of cardboard, boards and aluminum), began to cry. First, the tears were “normal”, but she later began crying tears of blood. Since then, the home has become a shrine for devout visitors from all over the city, and clergymen have gone to witness the phenomena firsthand to see if it can be indeed declared a miracle. No word on that…yet.

Holy calling card gets you blessed by Mexican priest

6:49 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Marketing|mexico|Religion · 9 Comments

23 May 2006

File this under: tacky marketing ploys. I’m usually not shocked by the sketchy marketing tactics that some companies use to promote their products to the Latino market. After all, I am in the business, so I’ve seen my share of lame campaigns, promotions, slogans, etc. But when I read about the Mexican Catholic Church getting kickbacks from a calling card company for use of the image of the Virgen de Guadalupe…I wanted to be amused but I just felt…ick.

The Catholic Church in Mexico is set to receive a cash bonanza from a U.S. company planning to sell prepaid phone cards with a printed image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico’s most revered religious symbol.

“We are not selling blessings, we are promoting benefactors,” said Mexican Monsignor Diego Monroy Ponce, whose recorded voice will bless customers when they use the $3 and $5 cards to place long-distance or cell-phone calls.

Talk about cheapening one’s supposedly deeply held beliefs. I’m no Catholic, but this makes me sick.

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Posts Tagged ‘virgen de guadalupe’

Celebrating “La Virgen Morena”

Blood-crying Virgin on the border

Holy calling card gets you blessed by Mexican priest

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