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December 12, 2015

More than a saint, Our Lady of Guadalupe represents Mexican identity

A man adjusts the crown on a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe Dec. 6 outside the basilica named for her in northern Mexico City. The national patroness remains important in Mexico as source of spiritual inspiration, but even nonoreligious people identify with her.

MEXICO CITY - Jonathan Gonzalez lugged a large statue of St. Juan Diego into the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe on a recent Sunday, showing no signs of strain as he moved through the masses at the world's most-visited Marian shrine.

Published in International