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La Basilica De Guadalupe Se Esta Hundiendo Rapidamente, Lmprenta De Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Marian Broadsides from Mexico

Illustrator: Jose Guadalupe Posada

Recto is headed by a story about the gradual subsidence of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe-it being built, like much of Mexico City, on the dried bed of Lake Texcoco. A new basilica was built in 1974; the old basilica (constructed between 1695 and 1709) has been repaired and is again open to the public. Another piece on recto speaks adoringly of Our Lady-this is a breath of love in a miasma of catastrophe. Top verso contains a recounting of various disasters of recent years, earthquakes around the country and cataclysms associated with Halley's …