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Iei Fin Del Mundo Se Aproxima!, Lmprenta De Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Marian Broadsides from Mexico

Illustrator: Jose Guadalupe Posada

Begins with prophecies of a certain Madre Matiana, who predicted dire calamities, wars, pestilences, earthquakes, miseries, etc., for the beginning of the 20 th century. And lo, these things were coming to pass, in Mexico and abroad! Why? God's punishment for wild human passions and prevailing disbelief. The latest proof: the earthquake of November 19, 1912, now known as the Acambay Earthquake. (Acambay is a village about 100 km from Mexico City. 164 people perished in that quake.) The lower half of the verso contains a prayer to the Virgin of Guadalupe to implore Her for …

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 …

Horrible Suceso Fraguado Por El Demonio Y Destruido Por El Admirable Y Portentoso Milagro De Nuestra Sra. De Guadalupe, Entre Los Esposos Maria Juliana Delgado Y Pedro Garcia., Lmprenta De Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Marian Broadsides from Mexico

Illustrator: Jose Guadalupe Posada

A cautionary tale from the pueblo of Ocotlan de la Sierra that takes place "el ultimo de Septiembre def afio pr6ximo pasado" -the end of September of the next past year. This is especially helpful, as this hoja volante is undated. Marfa and Pedro are happily married for several weeks, but then Pedro begins to drink and gamble and stay out 'til all hours with his com padres. He becomes very abusive toward Marfa, as well, both verbally and physically . As his resources dwindle (At one point, Marfa even finds him gambling with the very …

Nuestra Senora De San Juan De Los Lagos Que Se Venera En El Estado De Jalisco, Lmprenta De Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Marian Broadsides from Mexico

Illustrator: Jose Guadalupe Posada

Devotional print with text on verso describing miracles attributed to Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos.

Profanacion De Las Reliquias De Nuestra Senora De Guadalupe, Lmprenta De Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Marian Broadsides from Mexico

Illustrator: Jose Guadalupe Posada

Lucas takes a trip to Mexico City, leaving his wife Marfa behind at their home in Apulco, Zacatecas. While in the Federal District, Lucas visits the Virgin of Guadalupe at her sanctuary, where he receives relics such as a picture of Our Lady, a scapular, and a rosary. While Lucas is away, Marfa begins hanging around with certain Protestant families, who put ideas into her head and steer her down a path away from Our Sacred Religion. When Marfa finds that Lucas had brought her nothing but La Seiiora's holy relics, she becomes enraged and breaks …

Oracion A Nuestra Sra. Del Refugio, Lmprenta De Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Marian Broadsides from Mexico

Illustrator: Jose Guadalupe Posada

Praise to Holy Mary in her aspect as the Refuge of Sinners (the source of all healing, the New Eve.), a title going back to Saint Germanus of Constantinople in the 700s. Relation, too, of portentous miracles attributed to her.

Alabanzas, Accion De Gracias Y Tierno Despedimento A Nuestra Augusta Reina Y Patrona Maria Santisima De San Juan De Las Lagos., Lmprenta De Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Marian Broadsides from Mexico

Illustrator: Jose Guadalupe Posada

Praises to Mary, and a tender farewell and reminiscences from the viewpoint of a pilgrim returning home. Lower quarter of back page (if folded) contains a certificate of sorts, describing the benefits of pilgrimage as described by Pope Leo XIII and providing blank lines for a pilgrim to inscribe her/his name and date of visitation, making this a potential treasured keepsake for visitors. Leo XIII was pope from 1878-1903, so this could be presumed to have been printed in the latter part of that period. The text, however, makes mention of Jose de Jesus Ortiz, then …

Loa Dicha Par Sancho Panza Y Dona Cenobia. En Honor De La Pureza De Maria Santisima., Lmprenta De Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Marian Broadsides from Mexico

Illustrator: Jose Guadalupe Posada

A loa is a brief theatrical piece presented as an opening for a festival or introduction to a longer play. This form became popular in Spain in the 16th century and the tradition was carried on in Latin America. They were used to keep the audience occupied while waiting for the main event to begin, and they came in many forms for different purposes. The text of the present /oa indicates that it was used to commemorate the "Fiesta de Marfa y el Divina Sacramento".

Loa Dicha Por El Dr. Mercolico En Honor De Nuestro Senora De Guadalupe, Lmprenta De Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Marian Broadsides from Mexico

Illustrator: Jose Guadalupe Posada

A loa is a brief theatrical piece presented as an opening for a festival or introduction to a longer play. This form became popular in Spain in the 16th century and the tradition was carried on in Latin America. They were used to keep the audience occupied while waiting for the main event to begin and they came in many forms for different purposes.

Tierno Despedimento Do Los Fieles A La Santisima Virgen De Guadalupe Patrona De La Republica Mexicana, Lmprenta De Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Marian Broadsides from Mexico

Illustrator: Jose Guadalupe Posada

Presumed souvenir volante for visitors to the Virgin of Guadalupe. Features engravings of the Guadalupe medallion; a relation of Her coronation; a report of the celebration of declaration of basilica status to the church at Guadalupe, granted by Pope Pius X, on May 24, 1904; and a lengthy, loving 'farewell' from visitors from every region of the country (very similar to the farewell printed in the San Juan volante below). Unfolded. Printed on dark orange paper.

Lncreible Suceso Una Mujer Que Se Convierte En Piedra Relato Traido De San Juan De Los Lagos, Lmprenta De Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Marian Broadsides from Mexico

Illustrator: Jose Guadalupe Posada

Dona Eugenia, who is sick, undertakes a pilgrimage to the Virgin of San Juan de los Lagos. On the way there, demons cause her to become more and more angry at her promise to Our Lady, and she sinks into a rage of curses and blasphemies . With a clap of thunder, she is turned to stone! There seems to be some theological tension here between Old Testament ideas of God (Our unfortunate protagonist is compared to Lot's wife) and a more New Testament-ish concern with the compassion of God and the Holy Mother. In this …

Nuestra Senora De San Juan De Los Lagos, Lmprenta De Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Marian Broadsides from Mexico

Illustrator: Jose Guadalupe Posada

Beautiful full-page depiction of the Virgin of San Juan de los Lagos on recto; verso has another lovely engraving, this time of the Cathedral Basilica of San Juan de los Lagos in Jalisco . Verso also contains prayers, an act of contrition, and verses in praise of the Holy Virgin and her miracles, all "in honor ofthe pious and memorable annual pilgrimage that the faithful make to her beautiful sanctuary."

Coloquio Para Celebrar La Maravillosa Aparicion De Ntra. Senora De Guadalupe., Lmprenta De Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Marian Broadsides from Mexico

Illustrator: Jose Guadalupe Posada

A brief dramatization, with stage direction and musical chorus, of the miraculous appearance of the Virgin of Guadalupe to Juan Diego, with further dialogue between Juan and Archbishop Fray Juan de Zumarraga.

Admirable Milagro De La Sma. Virgen De Guadalupe En El Pueblo De Taxco: Un Cirio Con Substancias Explosivas, Lmprenta De Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Marian Broadsides from Mexico

Illustrator: Jose Guadalupe Posada

This sheet gives news of an unbeliever who went into a church to leave two candles, one of which was filled with explosives, to be used during a function for the Virgin of Guadalupe. The candles were lit before the service, but one attendant inexplicably felt that he had to extinguish the flames, thus saving everyone. Taking the candles away, it was noticed that one candle was heavier than the other, and the plot was laid bare. This was hailed as miraculous intervention by Mary.

Loa Dicha Por Una Cocinera Y Un Aguador En Honor De Nuestro Senora Del Rosario, Lmprenta De Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Marian Broadsides from Mexico

Illustrator: Jose Guadalupe Posada

A loa is a brief theatrical piece presented as an opening for a festival or introduction to a longer play. This form became popular in Spain in the 16th century and the tradition was carried on in Latin America. They were used to keep the audience occupied while waiting for the main event to begin, and they came in many forms for different purposes.

Milagrosa Imagen De Nuestra Senora De Los Remedios, Lmprenta De Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Marian Broadsides from Mexico

Illustrator: Jose Guadalupe Posada

Devotional print. Image on verso contains Jesus' head with crown of thorns and two angels flanking. Headline on verso translates: The maker of the world: he continues to unload his righteous anger on us, making us suffer his calamities.

Devoto Salutacion Tiernas Alabanzas Accion De Gracias Y Expresivo Despedimento A La Milagrosisima Imagen De Nuestra Seflora De San Juan De Las Lagos., Lmprenta De Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Marian Broadsides from Mexico

Illustrator: Jose Guadalupe Posada

Devotional volante filled with prayers and praise to Mother Mary. Lack of publisher info helps me to the conclusion that this was printed as an inexpensive keepsake for visitors to Her Holy Abode.

Accion De Gracias A La Santlsima Virgen Marla De San Juan De Los Lagos, Lmprenta De Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Marian Broadsides from Mexico

Illustrator: Jose Guadalupe Posada

Gratitude and prayers to the Virgen of San Juan de Los Lagos for her love, intercession, and grace to the multitude of sinners prostrate with devotion. On verso, a tender farewell as pilgrims return to the far-flung corners of the republic (very similar to the farewell printed in the Guadalupe volante above). Lovely engraving of the basilica signed by Posada.

La Anima Sola, Lmprenta De Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Marian Broadsides from Mexico

Illustrator: Jose Guadalupe Posada

Here we have another of Posada's masterpieces, "The Lonely Soul," a breathtaking depiction of a tormented soul in purgatory pleading with Mother Mary and St. Joseph to intercede with the Holy Trinity on her behalf. The idea of purgatory, an intermediate place where souls suffer for a period of time in order to pay penance for sins committed while alive, has roots that extend centuries before Christianity and spread to the ancient belief systems of such far-flung locales as India, Persia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Palestine. The concept gained widespread acceptance in the Church in the …

Singular Fenomeno. El Nino Sin Craneo En La Villa De Guadalupe., Lmprenta De Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Marian Broadsides from Mexico

Illustrator: Jose Guadalupe Posada

Agapita gives birth to a tragic baby with its eyes on its forehead and a tail like a monkey's. This causes amazement and confusion, as Agapita is a beautiful teen and her paramour, unnamed and only mentioned the once, is "a white youth and not bad-looking". This causes quite a stir, with some proclaiming that this is a punishment on the youths from God for not being obedient to their parents. Agapita visits the Virgin of Guadalupe, where her tears pour down her face and flow out of the temple, demonstrating her true repentance. She was …

Sorprendente Milagro. Segunda Aparicion De Nuestra Senora La Virgen Sontlsima De Guadalupe, Entre La Hacienda De La Lecheria Y San Martin., Lmprenta De Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Marian Broadsides from Mexico

Illustrator: Jose Guadalupe Posada

Come, all believers,

And adore with blind faith,

The Queen of the Heavens

Found in a maguey.