El Día de Guadalupe
And, from Arizona, a series of testimonies -- from workmen, clerics, the faithful:
"This is the festivity we do for her. We don't know how to repay her but to come here," David said.¡Buena fiesta a todos!
According to the Nican Mopohua, a document written in Nahuatl that records the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe, she came to deliver the message that "she is the true Mother of the true God for whom we live for," Lopez said.
"For me the Virgin has been, in my life, a protector, a mother, a friend," Lopez said. "She helps me to surpass many things within the priesthood, she's a security."
For Lopez, the image signifies the "real presence of the Mother of God" — not a photograph, not a painting. Her presence comes to give hope to the Mexican people, he said.
PHOTOS: Reuters/Tomas Bravo
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