Mexican Phoenix: Our Lady of Guadalupe
Subtitle: Image and Tradition across Five Centuries
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 2, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780521801317
Subjects: Saints & hagiography; World history; Miraculous Phenomena; History: World; Guadalupe, Our Lady of; History; History - General History; Mexico; Latin America; Latin America - General; Christianity - History - Catholic; Latin America - Mexico; History / Renaissance; Religious life and customs; Apparitions and miracles; Blessed Virgin, Saint; Mary,
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.