page_title: Luis Laso de la Vega
hierarchical_section_title: Luis Laso de la Vega
caption_attribution_description: Español: Escudo desconocido, sin referencias
context_page_description: Luis Laso de la Vega was a 17th-century Mexican priest and lawyer. He is known chiefly as the author of the Huei tlamahuiçoltica, an account published in 1649 and written in the Nahuatl language, which contains a narrative describing the reported apparition of the Virgin Mary before Saint Juan Diego in 1531, some 117 years earlier. The account describes the appearance of the apparition now known as Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego at the hill of Tepeyac.
context_section_description: 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 and written in the Nahuatl language, which contains a narrative describing the reported apparition of the Virgin Mary before Saint Juan Diego in 1531, some 117 years earlier. The account describes the appearance of the apparition now known as Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego (an indigenous convert to Roman Catholicism, whose original pre-conversion name is given as Cuauhtlatoatzin) at the hill of Tepeyac.
caption: Coat of Arms of the House of Lasso de la Vega.
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