. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. e miracle of the springthat gushed where the Virgin stood at the moment that she dispatched Juan Diegoto the bishop with the roses. The chapel was built in 1791, and the spring is justwithin its door. Beneath the dome, which is covered with glazed tiles, is the altarand a carved pulpit upborne by a figure of Juan Diego; the mural decorations arepaintings of the Indians visions of the Virgin. The Chapel of the Little Hill, iserected on the spot where, at the Virgins will, bloomed the roses on the previouslybarren rock. Th
. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. e miracle of the springthat gushed where the Virgin stood at the moment that she dispatched Juan Diegoto the bishop with the roses. The chapel was built in 1791, and the spring is justwithin its door. Beneath the dome, which is covered with glazed tiles, is the altarand a carved pulpit upborne by a figure of Juan Diego; the mural decorations arepaintings of the Indians visions of the Virgin. The Chapel of the Little Hill, iserected on the spot where, at the Virgins will, bloomed the roses on the previouslybarren rock. The first chapel was built in 1660, but was replaced by the present 250 MEXICO edifice early in the eighteenth century. These auxiliary establishments are con-nected by a stone stairway, about halfway up which is a votive offering, the StoneSails of Guadalupe, made by sailors who implored the aid of the Virgin in their dis-tress and, being saved, they accordingly brought before the shrine the foremastof their vessel and the sails, which latter are there encased in THE GENERAL HOSPITAL. CITY OF MEXICO. Besides these chapels, there is the church of the Capuchin Nuns, forming agroup of establishments more widely known and honored and visited by morepersons than any other shrine in Mexico. Our Lady of Guadalupe is the Lourdesof Mexico, the holiest of Mexicos sacred places. Another shrine highly venerated by Mexicans is the Church of Our Ladyof Los Remedios. The legend upon which its veneration rests antedates that ofOur Lady of Guadalupe. The story told of the image enshrined in this church isthat it was brought to Mexico from Spain by a soldier in the following of Cortes,named Juan Rodriguez de Villafuerte, who, in the flight on the Noche Triste tookthe image from the great Aztec temple, where it had been placed in a shrine, and CHURCHES AND CHARITIES 251 carried it as far as the hill of Totoltepec, where his strength failing, he hid it under abroad maguey plant. It was ther
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