the apparition of our lady of guadalupe was approved in 1754.
the apparition of our lady of guadalupe was approved in 1754.
when was the apparition of our lady of guadalupe approved?
1754
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the mexican guadalupe supplanted her spanish original both in name and in fame. there are some who contend that the mexican "guadalupe" is in fact a corruption of a word in the native nahuatl language. nonetheless it is fairly certain that the mexican name "guadalupe", as a title for the virgin mary, does in fact derive from the spanish place-name, probably by some association of the virgin with the spanish cult of our lady of guadalupe (extremadura), which would have been strong at the time of the spanish "conquista" of mexico, and which claimed its own apparition, shrine and pilgrimage. the name's use in relation to the marian apparition in mexico has led to some controversy regarding its origin and meaning. the name's similarity to a variety of nahuatl words and phrases have given rise to various hypotheses that "guadalupe" was a corruption of these nahuatl phrases – the idea being that the spanish in 16th century mexico found it difficult to pronounce nahuatl. such nahuatl phrases include "coatlaxopeuh" ("the one (female) who defeats the snake", interpreted as a reference to the serpent-devil in the book of genesis); "tequatlanopeuh" ("she whose origins were in the rocky summit"), and "tequantlaxopeuh" ("she who banishes those who devoured us"). the first to suggest the corruption theory behind the name was bercera tanco, in 1675. however, every manuscript from the first 150 years following the apparition uses the name "guadalupe", including the original text in nahuatl, leading scholars to conclude that time provides "no historical evidence indicating that the virgin was called by any of the names proposed". in fact, accounts of spaniards' response to the story of the apparitions show that it was the native mexicans who insisted on using the name "guadalupe" for mary. a number of spaniards had urged that "guadalupe" be abandoned for a nahuatl name, like "tepeaquilla" or "tepeaca".
guadalupe (name)