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** Can anyone help he refute these claims.
While the story of Juan Diego is reported to have taken place in December 1531, the first recorded mention of the event isn’t found until the writings of Antonio Valeriano, sometime after 1556. Indeed Valeriano himself wasn’t born until 1531. Valeriano’s writings themselves are only preserved in a collection of writings dated to 1649. So the question is where did Valeriano come by his information? There are no other writings to support this event.
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Secondly, we have a pretty good idea where this story comes from. According to the Guadalupe miracle story, Juan Diego sees the apparition at the foot of the hill of Tepeyac, once home to a shrine to the Aztec goddess Tonantzin. The later story of the miracle is grafted on to the wider mythological framework of Tonantzin as a method of syncretical revisioning. This is nothing new in mythological terms and serves as a method to advertise and promote your new religion to unbelievers but in a way which will be familiar to them.
While the story of Juan Diego is reported to have taken place in December 1531, the first recorded mention of the event isn’t found until the writings of Antonio Valeriano, sometime after 1556. Indeed Valeriano himself wasn’t born until 1531. Valeriano’s writings themselves are only preserved in a collection of writings dated to 1649. So the question is where did Valeriano come by his information? There are no other writings to support this event.
** And this
Secondly, we have a pretty good idea where this story comes from. According to the Guadalupe miracle story, Juan Diego sees the apparition at the foot of the hill of Tepeyac, once home to a shrine to the Aztec goddess Tonantzin. The later story of the miracle is grafted on to the wider mythological framework of Tonantzin as a method of syncretical revisioning. This is nothing new in mythological terms and serves as a method to advertise and promote your new religion to unbelievers but in a way which will be familiar to them.