Todos los caminos de México llevan a la basílica de Guadalupe cada 12 de diciembre – Chicago Tribune
By CLAUDIA ROSEL
MÉXICO CIUDAD (AP) — Groups of people with images of the Virgin of Guadalupe on their espaldas. They enter a pie in Mexico City from all four points of the compass. A human zone flooding the streets of the north of the capital since the night of the young people. Music, cohesion, rezos, sails and a lot of emotion.
Some say that every day of December 12, all roads in Mexico head towards the Basilica of Guadalupe because the immense temple of the circular plant brings together Catholics who want to show their devotion to the patroness of Mexico and Latin America.
On average, before singing “Las mañanitas” – the traditional song of Mexican celebrations that every year is sung to the virgin – kilometers of people occupy the great explanation at the temple and among others guide themselves in the nearby streets as a human zone of the sobresalian images, norms or religious figures.
The “Guadalupana”, as its popular knowledge, is established for all parties, up to the taco points where the pilgrims must respond to the forces.
“We can offer you health,” said Gladys López, who arrived with her teenage daughter from San Felipe Teotlalcingo, 100 kilometers (62 million) east of the capital, to see the virgin. “Let us ask that the girl knows and poisons all of our new pueblo”.
The cansancio, sleeping in the south and the esfuerzo valieron la pena, aseguró Lopez minetras se alistaban to record the last metros (yardas) of your path.
Some hope for the release of a priest so that their virgins will comply. Other positive effects can suppress lagrimas.
Before, distinct traditional dances in honor of the Guadalupana mixed with the murmullo of the pilgrims. Unos caminaban solos, otros en familia, algunos de rodillas para agradecer ou supplicar la intercession de la virgin.
José Luis González Paredes, 82, lifted a framed picture adorned with flowers. Then I traveled over three decades studying the temple these days to receive inflection.
“Solo voy a pedir para el next año, que me de permiso para traerla y tener la salud para puder aguantar el camino,” he affirmed.
According to Catholic tradition, the viernes commemorate the anniversary of the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe to Juan Diego, an indigenous peasant, in 1531, who printed the image of the Virgin Morena that now presides over the basilica. Father Juan Pablo II canonized Juan Diego in 2002.
Tampoco faltan los homesajes virtuales. In the last days, in his honor, “La Guadalupana” has adopted several versions: from the most viral — the electronic of the priest Guilherme Peixoto — to others more intimate like a song in Raramuri, the language of the indigenous communities of the Sierra Tarahumara, and noroeste of Mexico.
The celebration also took place with one of the mayors in charge of civil protection of the capital, since it is largely destroyed because it considers one of the most important Catholic pilgrimages in Latin America.
