The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-29

says, who lived with his wife, Lucia Maria
in the town of Santiago Tlaltelolco; OF
December 9, 1881, he went to mass. AS h'
was passing near the hill of Tepeyacac (th'
hill on which the shrine now stands hi
heard
THE SINGING OF ANGELS.
He then beheld richly -attired lady whit
spoke to him, telling him to go to the bishop
and direct him to build church where she
was standing. He was delighted and went
to the bishop, Don Juan Rumarraga, anG
related the story of the vision. The bishop
however, gave no creCence to 1t. He re
turned to where he met the apparition anc
again held converse with the mysterious
lady. On the following Sunday the vision
again appeared to Juan Diego and he again
went to the bishop with his story. After
hearing him the bishop set watch upon
the Indian, but as he neared the holy hill
he disappeared from the sight of the spies:
Unseen by the watchers he met and told
the apparltion that the bishop required
some
SURE SIGN OR TOKEN
and she told him to return on the following
day and she would furnish it. On nearing
home he found his uncle sick with fever.
The next day he was busy attending to the
wants of his sick uncle and failed to go to
the hill. His uncle grew worse and ne
started to Tlateloloe for confessor and
fearing lest he would be delayed in his mis-
sion by the apparition's opportunities he
took another path by the eastern side of
| the hill. But as he was passing the hill
| the lady approached and asked him of his
quest. He told her and she said it was I'M
necessary to go further as his uncle was
well. She then made him pluck some flow
ers from the barren hill where they had
never grown before. She charged him to
take them to the bishop as the token he haG
requested He wrapped tnem in hi
blanket and made his way to the bishop
residence, when upon opening his blanke
to give the flowers TO the btshop,
THE VIRGINS PICTURE
appeared beautifully painted on the blanket
and the flowers had disappeared. Where
the vision. last appeared a spring burst
from the ground and chapel was immedi
ately built over it and is now called the
Poetic. (This is the spring of which
made mention in my last letter, the waters
being similar to our Soda Springs, of
Idaho) Upon returning home in company
with some priests Diego found that his
uncle had regained his health at the hour
named by the vision. Upon the hill where
udn IlOSO Atu pluChCu luC
church was built and now is known as
THE SHRINE OF GUADALUPE.
Juan Diego, his wife and uncle became
keepers of the church and died in the faith
of the Catholic church. The story of the
vision after being fully investigated by the
churck authorities was declared miracle
and the day December 12) on which the
Virgin appeared was set apart as feast
dow rNhic facet iS 0alahra cd Of IN nal
a town four miles from the city, and is a
great day among the Mexicans; the natives
gathering there from nearly all parts of the
republic. There were in the neighbor-
hood of
A HUNDRED STREET CARS
put on that line from the city and all day
long they were crowded, if possible, NOR,
than the cars in Salt Lake going to catcl
the bathing trains for G trield. l, with
companion, went out at 3 O'Clock Ia tn,
afternoon and the car stopped ABOUT half
mile from the centre of tt G town; the
crowd of people was so dense that it was
impossible to drive any further. said to
my companion "let US get out of this crowd,
go up to the plaza and sit in the shade"
We started for the plaza, but the further
we went the worse it got. After an hours
pushing and squeezing we arrived at the
plaza, but it was if anything more crowded
than the streets and sidewalks. The heat
was oppressive, the sun poured down on
our heads and there was not a particle of
breeze. 1t was fully another hour before
we got out of the crowd where we could
get
A BREATH OF FRESH AIR.
Several times 1 thought would faint, the
air was so oppressive. A gentleman told
me the night before that l had better go
out for l would never get chance to see
such sight again. | sincerely hope the |
gentleman spoke the truth.
| have been on trip to Vera Cruz since |
my last letter. That is town of Is, 900 in |
habitants situated on the Gulf of Mexico, |
265 miles from here, and connected with |
this city by the Mexican National railroad. |
The weather there is very hot, quite as |
much so as in Salt Lake in July and |
August. The scenery on this line is
SIMPLY GRAND.
The road crossing the Sierra Madre range |
Of mountains throws to view sue cessloD
of snow capped peaks, mountain lakes
waterfalls and cascades, and forests of |
huge trees. There has been some remark
able engineering displayed in constructing
this road. Tunnels, high trestle works,
curves and steep grades are numerous
nearly the entire length. One portion of
lQC TOdu Las oICCpOoG SIdut VI any
broad-guage road in the world About half
way between here and Vera Cruz is ORR
,abo. Here you have beautiful view of
THE VOLCANO oRIzABo,
huge snow capped peak being nearly as
.igh as Popocatapetl; and little to the
outh is the Toluca de Navajo, another
,eak but not quite so high as Orizabo
There are also several other peaks rang
ny from ten to sixteen thousand feet above
he sea level. L laid off here and took d
rip overland through the noun tains The
cenery reminds me very much of certain
ARTS of the Wasatch mountains, especially
round the Cottonwoods, only it is on
1ore grand and Stupendous scale. The
axes are larger, mountains, waterfalls and
ascades much higher, but they are no
rettier than we have in our mountains
'he Mexicans
ARE WONDERFULLY PEACABLE;
have been here now more than month
nd have never seen or heard of a fight, |
murder or suicide, There are only four
undred thousand people in the city; now
ou take any city in the United States OF
he same size and there would scarcely
e day but there would be murder or
uicide to chronicle. 1t is not because they S
re temperate people; quite the contrary,
or there are thousands of men and women
runk every afternoon and evening, but
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