Anastasia, Ó, La Recompensa de la Hospitalidad: Anécdota Histórica de Un Casto Amor Contrariado...

This book gathers the main religious images in Mexico, beginning with Our Lady of Guadalupe, who is a celebrated catholic icon of the Virgin Mary and Mexico's most popular religious and cultural image. Included also, are: Virgin of Acahuato, Our Lady of Tintoque, Virgin of Carmen, Our Lady of Catemaco, Our Lady of Loreto, and many more. There are history, anecdotes and color photographs.

With contributions by well-known and respected critics, writing of a very high caliber, and essays that explore hitherto uncharted territory, Mirrors and Echoes is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Spanish women's writing. Lou Charnon-Deutsch, author of Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction by Women"

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Excerpt from El Conquistador Francisco de Aguirre About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections...