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Our Lady of Guadalupe (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe), also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe (Spanish: Virgen de Guadalupe), is a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with four Marian apparitions to Juan Diego and one to his uncle, Juan Bernardino reported in December 1531, when the Mexican territories were part of the ...
Alma López (born 1966) is a Mexican-born Queer Chicana artist. [3] [4] [5] Her art often portrays historical and cultural Mexican figures, such as the Virgin of Guadalupe and La Llorona, filtered through a radical Chicana feminist lesbian lens.
Our Lady of Guadalupe is a popular image on prayer candles, and they are prominent in Mexican American and Chicano households, as well as Catholic churches. According to the artist, the site was a dark and dangerous corner before he created his Veladora , which he says "made it a safer place by putting this icon there". [ 1 ]
The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico, is celebrated on Dec. 12. In New York, a church of the same name is a seminal part of the city's Spanish and Hispanic history.
The Banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe or the popular name for the Hidalgo's Banner is a piece from the National Museum of History of Mexico (MNH). It consists of a piece of cloth painted in oil with the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, on each side of which there are two shields, signs and, at the bottom, flowers painted with the same technique, and is characterized by two additional triangles ...
María José Cristerna Méndez (born 1976), known professionally as The Vampire Woman or, as she prefers, The Jaguar Woman, is a Mexican lawyer, businesswoman, activist and tattoo artist. She is known for her extensive body modifications , which she embarked on as a form of activism against domestic violence .
In the etching, Our Lady of Guadalupe is pictured with the iconic halo, cerulean mantel, and the angel carrying a moon. However, in Hernandez's etching, Our Lady of Guadalupe is visually reimagined by sporting a karate uniform and delivering a powerful kick. In addition to this, the angel's facial expression is changed. [12] [13]
Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, by Stafford Poole; Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego: The Historical Evidence, by Eduardo Chávez; Mexican Spirituality: Its Sources and Mission in the Earliest Guadalupan Sermons, by Francisco Schulte; Encyclopedia of Sacred Places, by Norbert C. Brockman