Nican Mopohua - Part 2 - Background

NICAN MOPOHUA: BACKGROUND

1.

Ten years after the City of Mexico was conquered, with the arrows and shields put aside, when there was peace in all the towns,

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just as it sprouted, faith now grows green, now opens its corolla, the knowledge of the One by whom we all live: the true God.

3.

At that time, the year 1531, a few days into the month of December, it happened that there was a humble but respected Indian, a poor man of the people;

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his name was Juan Diego; he lived in Cuauhtitlán, as they say.

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and in all the things of God, he belonged to Tlaltilolco.

Saint Juan Diego -002 by loft119
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