Mexican Phoenix: Our Lady of Guadalupe
Subtitle: Image and Tradition across Five Centuries
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780521531603
Subjects: Saints & hagiography; World history; Latin America - Mexico; History - General History; History; History: American; Guadeloupe; Latin America; Christian Theology - Mariology; Christianity - History - Catholic; Guadalupe, Our Lady of; History / Renaissance; Latin America - General
First sentence: At the beginning of the fourth century, when Constantine the Great embraced Christianity as his imperial religion, his sister asked Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea, the church historian, to give her a likeness of Christ.