Virgin of Guadalupe, The
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The Virgin of Guadalupe is a brilliant art book that celebrates a popular cultural icon, a venerable symbol of compassion, hope, and humility—and one of the most popular pieces of ancient art ever created. Featuring color photographs, bilingual English and Spanish captions, and an evocative essay, the book includes lyrical quotes from Aztec legends, miraculous apparitions, storied histories, and colorful folklore.
John Annerino
John Annerino is the photographer and author of sixteen distinguished photography books, including the award-winning Desert Light, Indian Country, Vanishing Borderlands, Canyons of the Southwest, The Wild Country of Mexico, and Roughstock: The Toughest Events in Rodeo. His work has also appeared in National Geographic Adventure, LIFE, Newsweek, People, Scientific American, Time, and Travel & Leisure. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
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Acknowledgments
This book would not have been possible without the dedication, insight, and guidance of many kind people who helped me realize a decade-long dream of producing a book on the beloved icon of the Virgin of Guadalupe. I am grateful to editor Madge Baird, book designer Sheryl Dickert, and design assistant Melissa Dymock at Gibbs Smith; translator and confidant Alejandrina Sierra, friend Lucinda Bush Garrett, and compañero Don Julio Reza Díaz for opening the secret doors along the caminos of Guanajuato; Señor Pedro Vistal Bustos and Doña Catalina López, who pulled back the veil on the sacred stones of Las Carmelitas; Luis Manuel and Beatriz Delgado Sierra, who showed me the street shrines and murals of their colonial pueblo; Juan Ramón Delgado, who showed me the byways of El Bajío, La Villa, and Mexico City; Mystical Theologian and Padre David José Beaumont, OFM Cap., Parroquia Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, who lives that rare humble life of giving hope, love, and compassion to the Mountain Pima in the rugged sierras and barrancas of Sonora; Anthony V. Schwan for his grace; Bill Green, La Paloma de Tubac, Arizona, for his kind permission; Oscar Hermán Saénz for his generous technical support; and muralist Miguel Ángel Grijalva, artist Carlos Trujillo, and many other unknown artesanos, costureras, florists, folk artists, highway muralists, painters, sculptors, stone masons, tin smiths, and wood carvers whose work also graces the pages of this book. I am indebted to several people who opened their treasured private collections of the Virgin of Guadalupe to me: Mrs. Mary H. García, Menlo Park; Mrs. Ana María and Mr. Salvador Andrade; and Mrs. Josefina Lizarraga.
LIFE magazine director of photography Barbara Baker Burrows first opened my eyes to photographing iconic imagery by assigning me to mentor young Native American Pima students, many of whom picked up cameras for the first time to photograph their own impressions for the LIFE cover story Children’s Pictures of God.
The Virgin of Guadalupe, Highway 15 mural, Penasco Hill, Sonora, Mexico.
La Virgen de Guadalupe, mural en la Carretera 15, Cerro de Peñasco, Sonora, México.
Hidden Miracles
"He [Juan Diego] heard singing on the little hill,
like the songs of many precious birds . . .
extremely soft and delightful;
He started to climb to the top of the little hill
to go see where they were calling him from."
— Antonio Valeriano, 1556, from Here It Is Told,
Nican Mopohua, a jewel of Náhuatl literature
I’m climbing a cobblestone trail that winds around a mountain island into heavenly blue skies. Among the festive procession of people I’m following are sightseers who’ve ridden here in taxis, cars, and stake-side cattle trucks; vaqueros who’ve trod here on horseback; infants who’ve been carried here by mothers; pilgrims who’ve walked here on foot; and campesinos who’ve hobbled here on burros. Many were called to this storied mountain to see El Cristo Rey , Christ the King.
A landmark bronze statue that towers high above the mountain called El Cerro del Cubilete, it was built in honor of the Cristeros, Christian rebels, who carried a green, white, and red flag of the Virgin of Guadalupe into battle, proclaiming a faith for which many were martyred.
The trail began in the small pueblo of Aguas Buenas, Mexico, near the foot of the mountain at the shrine of El Templo de Santa