| Show i MIRACLE OF OLD MEXICO Wonderfully Impressive Is III tho nigh of tho old old town of ot where the picture o otho ot tho virgin wan wu before th the pilgrims landed nt at rock the Chicago chronicle Thoro Thero Is abou the place an atmosphere breathing tin the perfume of ot tho th old and days day U not destroyed troyed by tho advent of ot tin tho Introduction of ot the tho electric carl can by y tin the strenuous northerner whoso Ideas o ot progress beginning to work like t u leaven leaon In III this land of the dreamy Around this town lown of there linger memories of ot bygone time when the people of ot tho great northern were wera struggling a feeble fringe ot humanity against the Inhospitable and barbarous foes tou for tor n nto foothold to on tho continent that furnish food for tor dreams ull the days of ot a n Iran tran tranquil null quil existence From J rom away of ot that comparatively modern time only OO yours or so 80 ago there come visions to t the tho dreamer of ot tho teeming multi multitudes tudes of ot people 11 who lived and diM died un tier Iler tho name high blue sky and who vho tolled over tho somo mils and valleys to a n shrine of ot that older rare face Just as their In the country do now For or tho place lulo where the tho mil millions lions of pious plou Mexicans KO ICO on pilgrim ate are to the holiest place In the land once onCA beheld tho of ot the ancient Aztecs mother of ot the Rods and they oo tio paid homage here hundreds of at yearn heMe tho coming of ot the Span Spaniards and the teachers of ot the tho Christian It nearly four centuries ugo or be bl precise pf cl e on all the morning of or Dec 11 9 a 1531 that Juon JURn Diego l u II poor In Indian dian lIall on hU way woy to mas In the Chunh oft at Santiago heard tl Jill of ot rising rl behind thu of ot the splendid church the of ot an nn angelic all choir Then and did appear to him a lovely lady who lo addressed him In his own tongue bidding him to 10 go 0 to the tho ami tell the prelate that the he desired that In III that place laco a temple should bo hI built to her Juan tell fell on all his hili knees as nil the tho lady clothed In celestial splendor spoke lI to him hlll and when whon the tho vision hUll had passed ho nrose o mid went to the tho bish bishop op Juan who while an nil proving the faith of ot tho Iho Indian I II 11 vas to believe b lIc In III the tho reality of or tho Iho vision Again ARnin Juan went Hilt In to the hill hili where e the lady appealed to 10 him and listened to 10 thu Iho tale lalo ot oC the tha bishops hl In Incredulity credulity r film Aha commanded Diego to return once more and he ho did HO on un the following when tho lady lad for tor tho thu third time appeared and direct directed ct ed 4 We Indian to 10 tell the tho bishop of or her MI Again did Diego 1 KO RO to he the bishop bl hop who wits Mill hard of ot heart and unbelieving awl and desiring a II which should convince him told the Iho Indian to bring him some of at tho lie truth ot his hili marvelous talc The rho Indian In III nil all faith went bark to find the tho lady of ot his hla vision watched unbeknown to him by two servants of ot tho bishop When Juan Olego was again at the base hUAI of ot the tho hill hili he Iw dis disappeared appeared us by enchantment the Iho could see se nothing of ot him hlll The rho lady was there and on his telling of ot the tho de desired sired sign s IIi II she bade halle him to como come tho next day when the proof should bo bu Riven him When Juan reached tI d homo he found his uncle very er III with a II fe fever t ver Vert and the following day Iny Juan was engaged In nursing his hili uncle who grew worse so on Sunday morning Dec 1 el II 1 Juan hastened to to call a priest tn confess the dying tI l li man Tearing l that tho vision might again come to distract him from his holy errand the Indian took a n new lIew path Hut once on co moro more tho lady ap nIl appeared and called ailed him In his hili own liui Jun e He lie explained the urgency of ot his hili errand crr but she toM told him ho need nel not tear fear for tor his hili uncle who was wal now no cured cUr dl Then tho lady commanded Juan tn to cut some on Oil dry dr and at Id hill hili whore no had ever eler been before b tort known to grow Amazed mac ed the Indian noted d that Mowers abounded all around him and he gath IIRth gathered ered some som filling as directed his or 01 shoulder blanket with them Take the to the bishop said the wondrous lady and show ho them to no noone noone one before he ho seen teR them Juall hastened to tn the Iho city and stood too with Indians patience at nt tho Ihl door ll or till 1111 th Then was ns tho bishop astonished for tor when hen the Clowns fell from the Ihl Ulina there was Ina revealed painted thereon the Imago of ot the virgin The rhe bishop Nah retaining the smi Juan ll Diego to his home ho III 1 by 1 two servants and arriving there the sick undo was found miraculously restored re to health Here were miracles enough anil ron con at It last good ordered that a n chapel ol bo bl built hullt In the lIll spot where the tho virgin md appeared to John Diego and In February 1532 1132 the miraculous Image of ot our lady nn hero hern enshrined and Juan Junn and his hl un unel el cl became b n jo servitors In tho chapel And lIt what In IA this marvelous picture to tl which Catholic Mexico bows with faith Two or three times the class before It Il has ha been removed and the Ih examined by Mexican painters and they th have 1111 e reported that hl they unable to decide whether It Wall Mas done 11 no In III water color or oil all tt 11 Is executed on Oil the which Is III made of ot coarse I oar l tex tUn fiber II h I Whatever be he the IIII process It h I n puzzle to the faithful I skeptics like alike Two Americano In the favor of or the Mexican church have permitted to take n 1 ladder and ascend to view ViI the tho picture and nn have they could rOil not ex explain l plain hc process R by h which It was It Is III nut not an article of or faith to III bellevo In the of ot the alleged cl Many enlightened here sav they the do not In the I The Ihl Unman Catholic historian S In a II report made to tho lit late latt log d that the IIII legend waa pure fabrication there never Willi any apparition nor 1101 uny Juan JUlin and that the picture was painted by hy same Rome and used 1811 with Intent to deceive Thus tho skepticism m and In Incredulity credulity repeat In III our day the lIaC of on first hear hearing ing In Juan T leto story Hut the tho 1111 especially Nall the humble Indians I believe elleI and believing gain great storo if t faith till the sick url arc healed of or their Infirmities and men and women are helped l to tn Overcome tN sin or filled fil 1 rf a AM of or heavenly h al l 11 nd In III their dally battle with the spirit of ot The rh church stands at the toot fool of or the th sleep hill on the Ihl spot where Ui th lI ll to Juan JUlin First BishOp built a 1 chapel 1 then that Was l at 0 the of or orth the th a 1 church wim built dedicated In iJ two Ho years after the Ihl on Oil Next In IBS 1 another church h a 1 A n whIM hK was practically pmt 1 In III the autumn of Hf I P v ln Int a f reconstruction of ot the f basilica |
