guadalupe

     

Guaalupe (or Guadeloupe) was originally a Spanish toponym that derives from the Arabic word for "valley" or "river" (wadi) and the Latin word lupus, meaning wolf. The name referred to the Guadalupe River in Spain.

Trivia about guadalupe

  • The most-visited Catholic shrine in the Americas is Mexico's Basilica of Our Lady of this
  • Every December 12, Mexicans converge on a basilica in Mexico City to honor the virgin of this place
  • This village where Juan Diego twice saw the Virgin Mary in 1531 is now part of Mexico City
  • "Our Lady of" this Mexico City neighborhood is said to have appeared to a believer in 1531
  • The pope declared the "Virgin of" this Mexican place to be patroness of the Americas

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