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[title] => Margarita XLI
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[bodytext] => The blazon icon showing Mary's face
put steel in spines of peons seeking new and better treatment under ruling race. Now slaves were numbered many, Spaniards few and freedom gained would mean a battle's view. With knives and machetes they would fight the foe, to freedom's great call they'd not be untrue. But time and bullets, cannons, gave them woe. People knew the story behind the icon - a story giving hope and promise in revolution: "The Lady of Guadalupe is Mary, the mother of Jesus, as she appeared in a miracle near Mexico City. Not long after the Spaniards took Mexico, a poor Aztec met her on a rocky hillside. To prove that she wanted a church built in that place, she made roses bloom there, though none had ever bloomed before. The Aztec put some of these roses in his carrying net. When he took them out, Mary's picture appeared on the net in colors. She is the special friend and protector of the Mexican people." Diego Silva's father followed Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla from victories at Guanajuato, Villadoid, and Monte de las Cruces to their final defeat at Calderon and capture in the northern desert. Father stayed with his ‘priest-leader' ever loyal and true. Waiting execution in Chihuahua City, his wife and son visited him. Before being shot, he extracted an oath from Diego. [comments] => 1 [counter] => 253 [topic] => 31 [informant] => ramfire [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 1 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => StoryPoetry )
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