The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe originates from New Spain (Mexico), and relates to the apparition of the Virgin Mary in the Viceregal region, this being the most venerated iconography in the entire Marian repertory on New Spanish soil. The story, known as Nican Mopohua (Here is recounted), is a hagiographic text written in Nahuatl by Antonio Valeriano in about 1556, and it describes the various occasions on which the Virgin appeared to the indigenous native Juan Diego on Tepeyac hill in 1531...