Bright days in sunny lands . s hill of Tepeyacac (nowGuadalupe) heard singing; looking up, a lady ap-peared and told him to go to the Bishop and bid himbuild a temple to her honor on this hill; then she van-ished as she had come. The Bishop was returned to the spot, the lady reappeared, and toldhim to come again next day, which was Sunday. Thelady told him to repeat the message to the latter then told Juan to go and bring him an un-mistakable token of such a miraculous again met the lady, who again said: Return to-morrow. Then returned Juan Diego to his
Bright days in sunny lands . s hill of Tepeyacac (nowGuadalupe) heard singing; looking up, a lady ap-peared and told him to go to the Bishop and bid himbuild a temple to her honor on this hill; then she van-ished as she had come. The Bishop was returned to the spot, the lady reappeared, and toldhim to come again next day, which was Sunday. Thelady told him to repeat the message to the latter then told Juan to go and bring him an un-mistakable token of such a miraculous again met the lady, who again said: Return to-morrow. Then returned Juan Diego to his house,and found that his uncle, Juan Bernardino, was ill withthe fever cocolixtli, so that he must wait at home and at-tend him. Early on the morning of December 12th,the sick man being at the point of death, Juan Diegostarted to Tlaltelolco to call a confessor; fearing thathe might be delayed if he met the lady, and that hisuncle might die unconfessed, he went another v/ay,around the other side of the hill. But, behold! She. ^Miraculous Picture of ••Our Lady of Guadalupe. SURROUNDINGS OF TENOCHTITLAN 395 was there, coming down the hill and calling to him;he told her of his uncles illness and of his need for aconfessor, but she assured him that his uncle was al-ready well. Then the lady told him to gather flowersfrom the barren rocks on top of the hill, and the flowers grew where none had ever been be-fore; she commanded him to take these flowers to theBishop as the token he had desired, and to show themto no other until the Bishop had looked upon the place where the Virgin (for she it was) stood,a spring of clear, cold water gushed forth. Juan tookthe flowers folded in his tilma (his cloak) to the Bishop,and, as he dropped them at the holy fathers feet, up-on the tilma appeared the image of the Virgin, HolyMary, in the most beautiful colors. And so it came topass that the chapel was built where the roses had mi-raculously grown from the rocks in Dec
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