# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Our Lady of Guadalupe, Dec 12. Sourced # from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/12-12n.txt's single Lectio94 (the # apparition narrative, one continuous piece before &teDeum) and its # English counterpart. No Nocturn 3 in the source at all (unlike Our # Lady of Lourdes' 12-10bmv cross-reference) -- defers to the Common of # the BVM's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed here, same pattern as # st-hyacinth.yml's "No Lectio7-9" note. id: our-lady-of-guadalupe readings: - nocturn: 2 isGospel: false text: la: >- Méxici, in colle Tepeiacénsi, anno millésimo quingentésimo trigésimo primo Deípara Virgo María Joánni Dídaco neóphyto, uti pie tráditur, sese vidéndam prǽbuit, eíque ad antístitem Joánnem de Zumárraga mandátum dedit, quod et instánter iterávit, de æde síbimet ínibi construénda. Epíscopus vero signum expétiit. Mox neóphytum pátruo moritúro sacraménta longínquius ab apparitiónis loco quæréntem, tértio visu dignátur alma Mater, de pátrui sanitáte serénat, rosásque extra tempus obórtas, in ejus pállio compósitas, ad epíscopum deférri jubet. Cujus in conspéctu rosis effúsis, Maríæ imágo, ipsi pállio impréssa, uti tráditur, mirum in modum præséntibus appáruit. Quæ in sacéllo episcopáli primum asserváta, dein ad exstrúctam ædem in colle Tepeiacénsi transláta, dénique in magnífico templo excépta est, quo turmátim plebes Mexicánæ magis magísque conveníre cœpérunt, veneratiónis grátia et frequéntiæ miraculórum. Ideóque tamquam præsentíssimum præsídium Mexicáni antístites, univérso pópulo plaudénte, beatam Vírginem Maríam de Guadalúpe in primáriam Patrónam gentis Mexicánæ elegérunt, quod Benedíctus décimus quartus apostólica auctoritáte rite confirmávit. Leo tértius décimus sacram effígiem áurea coróna, Colúmbi recurrénte die, anno millésimo octingentésimo nonagésimo quinto per Mexicánum archiepíscopum decorávit. Sanctus vero Pius décimus beátam Vírginem Guadalupénsem univérsæ Américæ Latínæ Patrónam declarávit. en: >- In Mexico, on the hill of Tepeyac, in the year 1531, the God-bearing Virgin Mary, as is piously handed down, appeared to the neophyte Juan Diego, and gave him a command for Bishop Juan de Zumarraga, which she urgently repeated, that a church was to be constructed in her name at that location. The bishop, however, requested a sign. Then, while he was seeking the sacraments for his dying uncle far from the place of the apparition, his loving Mother favored the neophyte with a third vision, assured him of his uncle's health, and after he had gathered roses into his cloak that had blossomed out of season, she ordered him to take them to the bishop. The roses having spilled out in the sight of the bishop, an image of Mary, impressed upon the cloak itself, according to the tradition, appeared to those present in a wondrous manner. At first kept in the bishop's chapel, then transferred to a shrine constructed on the hill of Tepeyac, it was finally moved to a magnificent temple, to which Mexicans increasingly began to gather in droves, for reasons of veneration and frequency of miracles. And therefore as an ever-present defense, the Mexican bishops, to the applause of the whole people, chose the Blessed Virgin Mary of Guadalupe as the first Patroness of the Mexican people, which was duly confirmed by the apostolic authority of Benedict XIV. Leo XIII adorned the sacred image with a golden crown on Columbus Day, 1895, by the agency of the archbishop of Mexico. And St. Pius X declared the blessed Guadalupan Virgin as the Patroness of all Latin America. status: { la: verified, en: verified }