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ones ; "but no two agree in all tlie particulars. 

 However, that which has received most cur- 

 rency informs us, that, on the 12th of De- 

 cember, 1531, an Indian called Juan Diego, 

 while passing over the barren hill of Tepeya- 

 cac (about a league northward from the city 

 of Mexico), in quest of medicmat herbs, had 

 his attention suddenly arrested by the fra- 

 grance of flowers, and the sound of dehghtful 

 music : and on looking 



iiffure directly before him. Bein 



b 



rifled he attempted to flee ; but the apparition 

 caUing to him by name, » Juan Diego," said 

 she, « go tell the bishop to have me a place 

 worship erected on this very spot." The 



Indian replied 



, as he 



seekinii remedios for 'a dying relative. 



But the fio-Lire bade him to do as command 



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ed, and have no further care about his 

 tive— that he was then well. Jnan Diego 

 went to th e city, but being unable to prociire 

 an audience from the bishop, he concluded he 

 had been actuig under a delusion, and again 

 set off for his remedios. Upon ascendmg the 

 same hill, however, the apparition again ac- 

 costed him, and hearing Ms excuse, upbraided 

 him for his Avant of faith and energy; and said, 

 " Tell the bishop that it is Guadalupe, the \ u:- 

 gin Mary, come to dwell amongst and protect 

 the Mexicans, who sends thee." The Indian, 

 returning again to the city, forced his way 

 into the presence of the bishop, who, hke a 

 good sensible man, received the messeriger 

 with jeers, and treated him as a maniac ; 



