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Huei Tlamahuiçoltica ("The Great Event") [1] is a tract in Nahuatl comprising 36 pages and was published in Mexico City, Mexico in 1649 by Luis Laso de la Vega, the vicar of the chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe at Tepeyac outside the same city.
Nov 1, 1999 · Ever since the mid-seventeenth century, the account of miraculous revelations bestowed upon a humble Nahua by a dark-skinned Virgin Mary has captivated the collective consciousness of what we have come to call Mexico.
The Story of Guadalupe is a welcome addition to a growing corpus of scholarship concerned with this most Mexican of national symbols and devotional figures, the virgen morena (dark virgin).
Luis Laso de la Vega (or Luis Lasso de la Vega) was a 17th-century Mexican priest and lawyer. He is known chiefly as the author of the Huei tlamahuiçoltica ("The Great Happening"), an account published in 1649 [1] which contains a narrative describing the reported apparition of the Virgin Mary before Saint Juan Diego in 1531, some 117 years ...
also argues in favor of Luis Laso de la Vega, a Mexican-born Spanish eccle- siastic and vicar of the Guadalupe hermitage at Tepayacac, as the primary (though not necessarily the sole) author of the text.
The Story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso de la Vega's “Huei tlamahuiçolti” of 1649. Edited and translated by Lisa Sousa, Stafford Poole, CM., and James Lockhart. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. 151.
The devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of the most important elements in the development of a specifically Mexican tradition of religion and nationality over the centuries.
