So that it may come to the attention of all the Indians: An Eighteenth-Century Sermon on the Virgin of Guadalupe and Juan Diego

Resumen

The story of the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe to the Nahua Juan Diego has long attracted scholarly attention. Of special importance to those working with colonial Nahuatl texts is the first securely dated Nahuatl account, written by Bachiller Luis Lasso de la Vega and published in 1649 by Juan Ruiz. Although the original title begins Huei tlamahuiçoltica it is more popularly known by the opening words of the Nahuatl text: Nican Mopohua. In 1926 the Mexican printshop of Carreño e Hijo published a photoreproduction of the seventeenth-century edition; it contains a facing Spanish translation of the Nahuatl by Presbítero Licenciado Don Primo Feliciano Velázquez.