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Show I . . ! Patroness of Mexico. His grace, the archbishop of Mexico, has received the gratifying notice that his holiness, Leo. XIII. has been pleased to raise the noted collegiate church of Our Lady of Guadalupe to the rank of a Basilica. The Vicar of Christ has given his approbation to the solemn blessing of the natural roses, in honor of the patroness of Mexico' on the 12th of December, anniversary of the miraculous apparition, and on Oct. 12. the commemoration of the coronation. cor-onation. Preparations are being made to solemnize the erection of the new Basilica with becoming grandeur testifying tes-tifying 'as it-does to the great devotion devo-tion which the .illustrious reigning pontiff pon-tiff bears to the patroness of Mexico |