Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe
When I planned the trip to Mexico I have four major things that I wanted to do: visit the pyramids, jump in a cenote , go to a beach in the Yucatan peninsula, and make a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. I managed to do the fourth one on my second day in Mexico City, when I took the trip that includes a visit to Tlalelolco, Tepeyac and Teotihuacan. A mass was being celebrated when I came in According to the official Catholic accounts, the Virgin Mary made an apparition to a devout Indian named Juan Diego in 1531, on a hill in Tepeyac, which is just on the outskirts of Mexico City. The Virgin then showed some more signs for Juan Diego, including flowers that were not native in Mexico, and an image of Her in a cloak (called tilma ) that survived up to this day. The old basilica We arrived in Tepeyac around 10 am. The place was already filled with scores of devotees, among the millions that flock to the site every year. In fact the shrine is the ...