Mexico, the wonderland of the South . healtar. At Los Remedios, three miles from the city, stands thechurch of our Lady of Succor, or Senora de los the flight of the Sorrowful Night a Spanishsoldier, Juan de Villafuente, had on him an image of theVirgin. Wounded and unable to guard it, he hid it undera maguey plant. Twenty years later, an Aztec chief,Cequauhtzin or Juan Aguila, while hunting on the hill ofTotaltepec, saw the Virgin in a vision, and she told him toseek the image. The chief searched, found it under amaguey plant and took it home. In the morning it haddisappeared,

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Mexico, the wonderland of the South . healtar. At Los Remedios, three miles from the city, stands thechurch of our Lady of Succor, or Senora de los the flight of the Sorrowful Night a Spanishsoldier, Juan de Villafuente, had on him an image of theVirgin. Wounded and unable to guard it, he hid it undera maguey plant. Twenty years later, an Aztec chief,Cequauhtzin or Juan Aguila, while hunting on the hill ofTotaltepec, saw the Virgin in a vision, and she told him toseek the image. The chief searched, found it under amaguey plant and took it home. In the morning it haddisappeared, and on returning he found it again under themaguey. Once more he took the image back to his house,where he placed fruit and flowers as offerings before it,but it returned to the plant. Again he brought it back,and this time, being a cautious man, he locked it in a strong-box and all night long slept on the lid. But even theseprecautions were in vain; for when dawn came, the box wasempty, and the image was found under the maguey. The.

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