The Virgin

The Virgin of Guadalupe as an object and a destination. The image on the tilma, the basilicas old and new on Tepeyac, the pilgrimages, the December processions, and four centuries of painted and printed copies that carried the image into every part of the country.

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147 moments in this segment.

1656 - José Juárez on the apparitions, 1656. A painting of the image and the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe. By José Juárez, 1656. The four-apparition narrative was fixed in print by Miguel Sánchez in 1648, more than a century after the claimed events.
1750 - Luis de Mena's casta painting. A single canvas combining the Virgin of Guadalupe with a grid of casta types, fruits and scenes of colonial life. Painted around 1750. Casta paintings sorted the population of New Spain by descent, and putting the Virgin at the top of one made her the roof over that whole system.
1851 - The Battle of Churubusco, 1847. A hand-coloured lithograph of the fighting of 20 August 1847 in the war with the United States. Published 1851 after Carl Nebel. The convent was defended until the ammunition ran out.
1851 - Churubusco, detail. A cropped view of Nebel's lithograph of the battle of 20 August 1847. Published 1851. The Saint Patrick's Battalion, Irish deserters from the US army, fought here for Mexico and were hanged for it.
2010 - Before the dive at La Quebrada. A cliff diver making his final preparations. Acapulco, Guerrero, 2010. The divers pray at a shrine to the Virgin of Guadalupe set in the rock before they jump.
2012 - Villa Gustavo A. Madero. The district around the basilica. Mexico City, 2012. The area is known simply as La Villa, after the old Villa de Guadalupe.
2012 - Inside the basilica. The interior of the Basilica of Guadalupe. Mexico City, 2012. The circular plan means no column blocks the view of the image.
2012-08-27 - Reportaje Antigua Basilica de Guadalupe 12 de Octubre de 2007.mp4. A report on the old Basilica of Guadalupe. Subsidence is a permanent structural problem for heavy buildings in the old lake basin.
2013-03-01 - Historia de La Villa. A short history of La Villa. The shrine has drawn pilgrims continuously since the colonial period.
2013-05-16 - Semblanza de Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, 1919-2013. INAH TV profiles the architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez. He designed the new Basilica, completed in 1976, as well as the Museo Nacional de Antropología.
2013-05-23 - La Ciudad de México en el Tiempo: Pedro Ramírez Vázquez. Canal Once places Pedro Ramírez Vázquez in the history of Mexico City. His circular basilica was designed so the tilma is visible from every seat.
2013 - Reflections at the church. Light on the surfaces of a church interior. Photographed 2013. Guadalupan devotion is carried by parish churches across the country, not only by the basilica.
2013 - The temple of San Diego. The church of San Diego, photographed 2013. Franciscan foundations of this kind carried the cult into the countryside from the seventeenth century onward.
2013 - The temple frontage. The front of the church seen from the square. Photographed 2013. Most Mexican towns have a Guadalupe chapel, however small.
2013 - The Capilla de Indios. The chapel of the Indians at the Tepeyac shrine. Mexico City, 2013. It is one of the oldest buildings on the site and is where Juan Diego is said to have lived out his life.
2013 - The Villa de Guadalupe complex. The whole group of buildings at the shrine. Mexico City, 2013. The site holds the old basilica, the new one, the Pocito chapel and the hill chapel at once.
2013 - The Pocito chapel. The small round chapel at the shrine, built over a spring. Mexico City, 2013. Francisco Guerrero y Torres built it between 1777 and 1791 in an oval plan unusual anywhere in the Americas.
2013 - The San Diego Churubusco facade. The front of the church at the former convent. Mexico City, 2013. The convent became a fortress for one day in August 1847 and a museum afterwards.
2013 - Church and former convent. The San Diego Churubusco complex. Mexico City, 2013. General Anaya, asked for his ammunition when he surrendered, is said to have answered that if he had any there would be none of this talk.
2013 - The wall of the Zamora sanctuary. A wall of the Guadalupan sanctuary in Zamora. Michoacán, 2013. Zamora's Guadalupe sanctuary is the largest neo-Gothic church in Mexico and took over a century to build.
2013 - The image at Zamora. The Guadalupe image in the sanctuary at Zamora. Michoacán, 2013. Copies of the tilma image hang in nearly every Mexican church.
2013 - The apse at Zamora. The east end of the Guadalupan sanctuary. Zamora, Michoacán, 2013. Construction began in 1898 and stopped and started through the Revolution and the Cristero war.
2013 - The Zamora facade. The front of the Guadalupan sanctuary. Zamora, Michoacán, 2013. Its towers reach around 105 metres, the tallest of any church in Mexico.
2013 - The presbytery at Zamora. The sanctuary area of the Zamora church. Michoacán, 2013. The building was finally consecrated in 2008, 110 years after work began.
2013-07-26 - Antropológicas - Pedro Ramírez Vázquez (Cápsula Prog. 1). Canal Once's Antropológicas covers Pedro Ramírez Vázquez. He shaped the look of Mexican public architecture across four decades.
2013-10-16 - La Imagen Milagrosa de la Virgen de Guadalupe | Documental. A devotional documentary on the image. The apparition account is a matter of faith and the historical record is separately contested.
2013-12-10 - Peregrinos rumbo a la Basílica de Guadalupe 2013. Pilgrims heading to the Basilica in 2013. Roads into the capital fill with walking groups in the days before the feast.
2013-12-12 - De rodillas hasta la virgen de Guadalupe. AFP films pilgrims approaching the Virgin on their knees. Crossing the atrium on the knees is a common act of penance.
2013-12-13 - Danza Azteca Tlazolteotl, basílica de Guadalupe 1 de diciembre de 2013. Aztec dance dedicated to Tlazolteotl at the Basilica. The syncretism at Tepeyac is visible in the atrium itself.
2014-01-24 - Famosos mexicanos cantan 'Las Mañanitas' - Mañanitas a la Virgen de Guadalupe 2012 HD. Well known Mexican performers sing the mañanitas to the Virgin. Popular singers have taken part in the televised vigil for decades.
2014-03-07 - Presentación del Libro "Arquitectura" de Pedro Ramírez Vázquez. The culture ministry presents a book on the architecture of Pedro Ramírez Vázquez. The new Basilica was raised to minor basilica by Paul VI on 6 October 1976.
2014 - The Guadalupan marathon at Aguascalientes. Runners on the feast day. Aguascalientes, 12 December 2014. Torch and running relays to the basilica are a twentieth-century addition to the pilgrimage.
2014-12-07 - Documental Virgen de Guadalupe (History Channel). A broadcast documentary on the Virgin of Guadalupe. Popular documentary treatment generally omits the sixteenth century objections entirely.
2015-06-05 - La Ciudad de México en el Tiempo: La Villa. Canal Once places La Villa in the history of Mexico City. The site was a separate town before the capital absorbed it.
2015 - The Guadalupan sanctuary at dawn. The shrine in first light. Photographed 2015. The largest pilgrimage falls on 12 December, when millions arrive on foot.
2015 - The sanctuary and its square. The shrine with the open plaza in front of it. Photographed 2015. The plaza exists to hold crowds that arrive over several days.
2015 - Detail of the sanctuary. A closer view of the shrine building. Photographed 2015. Guadalupan sanctuaries were built across Mexico from the seventeenth century onwards.
2015 - The Basilica of Guadalupe. The shrine at Tepeyac, photographed during a Wiki Loves Pyramids tour. Mexico City, 2015. The modern basilica was finished in 1976 to a design by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, who also built the anthropology museum.
2015 - The sanctuary at dusk. The Guadalupan shrine in evening light. Photographed 2015. Pilgrims commonly cover the last stretch on their knees.
2015 - At the shrine during Wikimania. The Guadalupe complex photographed during the 2015 conference. Mexico City. Wikimania was held in Mexico City in July 2015.
2015 - The basilica precinct. A view within the shrine complex. Mexico City, 2015. The old basilica was closed in the 1970s because it was sinking and tilting.
2015 - The buildings at Tepeyac. Part of the shrine complex on the hill. Mexico City, 2015. Tepeyac is Nahuatl for at the nose of the hill.
2015 - Inside the shrine grounds. A view across the Guadalupe site. Mexico City, 2015. A moving walkway carries visitors past the image so the queue never stops.
2015 - The Tepeyac site. Another view of the shrine complex. Mexico City, 2015. The new basilica seats around 10,000 and stands on a circular plan so every seat faces the image.
2015 - The ambo. The reading desk from which the word is proclaimed in the parish church. Photographed 2015. The ambo took its present form in Catholic churches after the Second Vatican Council.
2015 - The Villa de Guadalupe. A view of the shrine complex. Mexico City, 2015. About 20 million visits a year have been reported, though the figure is an estimate and the source varies.
2015-08-05 - Crónicas y relatos de México - La Villa (04/08/2015). Canal Once's Crónicas y relatos covers La Villa. The shrine district north of the city grew entirely around the pilgrimage.
2016-05-13 - Antigua Basílica de Guadalupe de la Ciudad de México, documental. A long film on the old Basilica of Guadalupe. The colonial building sank badly on the soft lake bed and had to be closed.
2016-08-25 - REConstrucción - 1976 Basílica de Guadalupe. An architectural programme on the construction of the 1976 Basilica. The tent-like roof spans the whole congregation without internal columns.
2016-12-11 - Mañanitas y Eucaristía Solemne, 12 de Diciembre de 2016. The Basilica broadcasts the mañanitas and solemn eucharist in 2016. The vigil runs through the night into the morning.
2017-03-15 - Virgen de Guadalupe.Documental. Discovery Channel. A second broadcast documentary on the Virgin of Guadalupe. Scientific claims about the tilma are made repeatedly and have not been independently established.
2017 - The entrance to the Churubusco museum. The main door of the former convent, now the national museum of interventions. Mexico City, 2017. The war of 1846 to 1848 cost Mexico about half its territory.
2017 - The day of the Virgin. Pilgrims at the basilica where the cloak is enshrined. Mexico City, 2017. The tilma is displayed above the altar and is said to be made of agave fibre.
2017-06-23 - Improvisación de la Guadalupana al órgano y mañanitas a la virgen 2015. An organ improvisation on the Guadalupana and the mañanitas. The shrine maintains its own musical establishment.
2017-12-11 - Celebración a la Virgen 2017 - Basílica de Guadalupe - Ciudad de México - 4K-UHD. The celebration to the Virgin at the Basilica in 2017. The feast fills the atrium continuously for two days.
2017-12-12 - Peregrinos de Chiapas realizan la tradicional Antorcha Guadalupana hacia la Basílica. Milenio films pilgrims from Chiapas carrying the traditional torch. Antorchistas run relays carrying a flame to the shrine.
2017-12-13 - Antorchistas guadalupanos de seyé 12 Diciembre del 2017. Torch-bearing Guadalupan pilgrims from Seyé on 12 December 2017. Yucatán sends relay groups across the whole length of the country.
2017-12-13 - Corporacion de concheros de México honor basilica de guadalupe 2017 dando gracias. A conchero corporation dances in honour at the Basilica. The dance groups combine indigenous forms with Catholic devotion.
2018-04-05 - Peregrinación Ciclista del Bajío a la Basílica de Guadalupe 2017. A cycling pilgrimage from the Bajío to the Basilica. Cycling pilgrimages have become a fixed tradition in several states.
2018-05-22 - La maravilla americana en el noreste mexicano. La historia de la restauración de una pintura .... A museum lecture on the American marvel in northeastern Mexico. The devotion spread far beyond the Valley of Mexico during the colonial period.
2018 - The jaguar warrior dancing. A dancer in jaguar warrior dress performing a traditional dance. Photographed 2018. Concheros dancing at the basilica mixes pre-Hispanic costume with a Catholic feast, and both sides accept it.
2018 - A Guadalupe mural at Cuernavaca. A painted image of the Virgin at the Guadalupe parish in the historic centre. Cuernavaca, Morelos, 2018. The image is reproduced on walls, buses, shopfronts and skin across the country.
2018-12-11 - Mañanitas y Misa, 00:00 hrs., 12 de diciembre de 2018. The Basilica broadcasts the mañanitas at midnight on 12 December 2018. The service is carried live on national television each year.
2019-06-11 - Especiales La ciudad de México en el tiempo - La Villa de Guadalupe y otras historias (04/06/2019). Canal Once traces La Villa de Guadalupe through the city's history. The old basilica was completed in 1709.
2019 - The clown of the dance. A masked figure among the dancers on 12 December. Photographed 2019. Dancers pay a manda, a promise made in return for a favour granted.
2019 - Dancing for the Virgin. People dancing in thanks for favours received and to discharge their promises, on the feast day. Photographed 2019. The concheros dance in feathered headdresses to shell-backed stringed instruments.
2019 - A roadside shrine at Cerro de la Estrella. A shrine to the Virgin of Guadalupe beside the road. Mexico City, 2019. Cerro de la Estrella was where the Mexica held the New Fire ceremony every 52 years.
2019 - The Atrium of the Americas. The great open forecourt of the basilica at La Villa. Mexico City, 2019. The atrium holds the crowds that cannot fit inside on the feast day.
2019-08-24 - Basílica Guadalupe: la historia de un edificio que ya es un icono. A programme on the Basilica as a building that is already history. Modernist religious architecture in Mexico is now itself heritage.
2019-08-28 - Memoria de milagros. Exvotos mexicanos. Radio INAH presents a programme on Mexican ex-votos. Ex-votos are small painted panels giving thanks for a specific deliverance.
2019-10-25 - Los Carabinieri de Italia devuelven a México colección de exvotos. INAH TV reports Italian Carabinieri returning a collection to Mexico. Trafficked colonial religious art is recovered periodically through international police work.
2019-11-13 - Peregrinación danza Azteca basílica de Guadalupe 2019. Aztec dance during a pilgrimage to the Basilica in 2019. The dancers wear feather headdresses and ankle rattles of seed pods.
2019-11-13 - Peregrinación danza Azteca basílica de Guadalupe 2019. A second record of Aztec dance at the Basilica pilgrimage. Dance groups arrive from across central Mexico.
2020-04-15 - El retablo barroco en Guanajuato. The Guanajuato culture secretariat covers the baroque retablo. Gilded altarpieces are the setting the devotional image was made for.
2020 - Marking the day in 2020. Observance of the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. 12 December 2020. The date is when Juan Diego is said to have shown the bishop his cloak.
2020 - The feast day observed. The celebration of the Virgin of Guadalupe. 12 December 2020. Guadalupe was declared patron of New Spain in 1754 by Benedict the Fourteenth.
2020 - Devotion on the feast. Marking the day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. 12 December 2020. Hidalgo carried her banner when he raised the independence revolt in 1810.
2020 - The twelfth of December. The feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe. 2020. The day is not a public holiday in Mexico but functions as one.
2020 - Celebrating the Virgin. Observance of the Guadalupan feast. 12 December 2020. Attendance at the basilica in a normal year is counted in millions over the days around the date.
2020 - Inside the Mercado Hidalgo. The market hall at Dolores Hidalgo. Guanajuato, 2020. The building was opened in 1910 for the centenary of the independence call made in this town.
2020 - Rondallas walking to the basilica. A pilgrimage of student choirs and rondallas to the Basilica of Guadalupe. Mexico City, 2020. Trades, parishes and student groups each make their own pilgrimage on their own date.
2020-06-27 - Iconografía Guadalupana. A cargo de la Mtra. Elisa Vargaslugo. 1998.. A museum lecture on Guadalupan iconography. In 1556 the Franciscan Francisco de Bustamante denounced the devotion, with witnesses stating the image had been painted by the Indian Marcos.
2020-08-06 - Coloquio San Juan Diego: Proceso de Canonización 18 Aniversario, Mons. Eduardo Chávez. A colloquium on the canonisation process of Juan Diego. He was beatified on 6 May 1990 and canonised on 31 July 2002, both by John Paul II at the Basilica.
2020-12-12 - Mañanitas a la Virgen de Guadalupe- 12 de diciembre de 2020. The mañanitas sung on 12 December 2020. The vigil continued through the pandemic in restricted form.
2020-12-12 - The feast, 12 December 2020. Celebrations for Our Lady of Guadalupe on the feast day. 2020. The basilica closed to pilgrims that year for the first time in its history because of the pandemic.
2021-01-13 - Guadalupe: la constante invención de una imagen y su culto. The Museo Amparo presents Guadalupe as the constant invention of an image and its cult. Joaquín García Icazbalceta concluded in a confidential 1883 report that Juan Diego had not existed.
2021-02-20 - FEBRERO 2020 - Archivo de la Basílica de Guadalupe. The Basilica publishes material from its own archive. The shrine maintains a historical archive of its own records.
2021-04-08 - Proyecto de Restauración de la serie “La Vida de la Virgen”. Parte 1. A restoration project on a series depicting the life of the Virgin. Conservation of colonial religious painting is a shared Mexican and Spanish concern.
2021-05-07 - "El Nican Mopohua" (Historia de las Apariciones de la Virgen de Guadalupe en Náhuatl). A reading of the Nican Mopohua, the earliest detailed account of the apparitions. The Nahuatl manuscript is dated around 1556 and attributed to Antonio Valeriano, though both attribution and date are contested.
2021 - Retablo on the Santísima Trinidad. A carved retablo on the front of the church of the Holy Trinity. Puebla, 2021. Puebla's church fronts carry retablos in stone and tile together.
2021-07-16 - Archivo Histórico - Miguel Cabrera Pintor Novohispano del Siglo XVIII.. The Basilica archive covers the painter Miguel Cabrera. Cabrera examined and painted copies of the image in the eighteenth century.
2021-12-10 - Desde el siglo XVIII permanece la supremacía de la Virgen de Guadalupe. UNAM Global TV notes the Virgin's supremacy holding since the eighteenth century. The image became a unifying symbol across castes in New Spain.
2021-12-12 - Canonização de São Juan Diego - Basílica de Guadalupe 2002. The same canonisation ceremony at the Basilica of Guadalupe. Juan Diego is conventionally dated 1474 to 1548.
2022-01-18 - Canonización de San Juan Diego 2002. The canonisation of Juan Diego in 2002. The Congregation for the Causes of Saints reopened the historical investigation in 1998, and Stafford Poole questioned the rigour of that inquiry.
2022-02-03 - Conferencia: Pintura novohispana: identidades en tránsito. Atribución, estilo y “raza”. The Museo del Prado hosts a lecture on New Spanish painting and identities in transit. Colonial Mexican painting circulated across the Spanish empire.
2022-06-02 - Parpadeo de una Virgen. Restauración de la Virgen de Juquila.. The national conservation centre documents the restoration of the Virgin of Juquila. Regional Marian images have their own devotions and their own conservation needs.
2022-12-11 - Mañanitas y Misa a Santa María de Guadalupe, 12 de diciembre de 2022, 00:00 h.. The Basilica broadcasts the mañanitas and mass for 12 December 2022. Singing to the Virgin at midnight opens the feast day.
2022-12-11 - Mañanitas y Santa Misa a Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe 12 de diciembre de 2022, 00:00 h.. A full broadcast of the mañanitas and mass to the Virgin. Millions arrive at the shrine across the two days.
2022-12-12 - El momento exacto de Las Mañanitas a la Virgen de Guadalupe - 12 Dic 2022. The exact moment of the mañanitas to the Virgin. The song is the same one sung at Mexican birthdays.
2022-12-14 - La Basílica de Guadalupe y su peregrinación 2022, 12 de diciembre. The Basilica and its pilgrimage on 12 December 2022. Groups arrive on foot from towns hundreds of kilometres away.
2023-01-28 - Guadalupe El Milagro y El Mensaje - Documental Completo En Español. A full documentary on the miracle and the message. Devotional and historical accounts of Guadalupe rarely engage with each other.
2023-05-24 - Monjas coronadas mini documental. A short documentary on crowned nuns. The genre of nun portraits is a distinctive strand of colonial Mexican painting.
2023-06-14 - Conoces la historia de la Basílica de Guadalupe en México. An account of the history of the Basilica of Guadalupe. The feast day falls on 12 December each year.
2023 - Miguel Cabrera's Virgin, 1765. A painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe by Miguel Cabrera, dated 1765. Museo Internacional del Barroco, Puebla, 2023. Cabrera examined the original image in 1751 and published a report arguing it could not have been painted by human hand.
2023-10-12 - 1976 Ramírez Vázquez Basílica. A short piece on Ramírez Vázquez and the 1976 Basilica. A moving walkway carries pilgrims past the image to keep the queue flowing.
2024 - Archaeological remains at the Capilla de Indios. Excavated stonework beside the chapel at the Guadalupe sanctuary. Mexico City, 2024. Tepeyac held a shrine before the conquest, which is part of why the apparition site was contested from the start.
2024 - The Guadalupe fountain. A fountain in the Tepeyac garden at the shrine. Mexico City, 2024. The gardens were laid out when the new basilica was built in the 1970s.
2024 - A fountain in the sacred precinct. Water in the garden of the Tepeyac enclosure. Mexico City, 2024. The Pocito chapel nearby was built over a spring that pilgrims once drank from.
2024 - The Chapel of the Oaths. The Capilla de los Juramentos at the Guadalupe sanctuary. Mexico City, 2024. People swear off drink here in front of the image, and the oath is taken as binding.
2024 - The garden at Tepeyac. Planting in the grounds of the Guadalupe shrine. Mexico City, 2024. The hill is climbed by a stepped path lined with gardens.
2024 - Planting on the hill. Another view of the shrine gardens at Tepeyac. Mexico City, 2024. Roses are the flower of the apparition story, said to have bloomed on a bare hill in December.
2024 - Steps to the Cerrito chapel. The stairs climbing to the chapel on the hilltop. Tepeyac, Mexico City, 2024. The Cerrito chapel marks the spot where the apparition is placed.
2024 - The Indians' chapel. The Capilla de Indios in the shrine complex. Mexico City, 2024. Its name records that indigenous worshippers were kept in a separate building.
2024 - Saint Francis and the chariot of fire. An eighteenth-century painting by an unidentified artist, showing Francis taken up by Elijah's chariot. Ex-monastery of San Diego Churubusco, Mexico City, 2024. Much colonial painting in Mexico is anonymous workshop production.
2024 - The transit of Saint Francis. An eighteenth-century canvas of the death of Francis, painter unknown. Ex-monastery of San Diego Churubusco, Mexico City, 2024. The Franciscans were the first order to arrive, in 1524.
2024 - An exhibition room at Churubusco. A gallery in the former monastery. Mexico City, 2024. The Museo Nacional de las Intervenciones covers every foreign intervention in Mexico since independence.
2024 - In the Museum of the Interventions. Another exhibition room in the old convent. Mexico City, 2024. The museum opened in 1981 in the building where the 1847 battle was fought.
2024 - The lower cloister. The Claustro Bajo of the former monastery. Mexico City, 2024. The cloister arcades are seventeenth century.
2024 - The cannons plaque. A historical marker about the guns at the former monastery. Churubusco, Mexico City, 2024. The defenders had a handful of guns against a much larger force.
2024 - Above the lower cloister. The upper level of the Claustro Bajo. Ex-monastery of San Diego Churubusco, Mexico City, 2024. Friars' cells opened off this upper gallery.
2024 - The monastery garden. Planting in the grounds of the former convent. Mexico City, 2024. Convent gardens grew food and medicine as well as flowers.
2024 - The garden from the cloister. Another view of the grounds at San Diego Churubusco. Mexico City, 2024. The site is now a park as well as a museum.
2024 - The smaller patio. The Patio Menor of the former monastery. Churubusco, Mexico City, 2024. The building has been a convent, a fort, a barracks and a museum.
2024 - The pilgrims' portal. The entrance used by pilgrims at the former monastery. Churubusco, Mexico City, 2024. Churubusco sits on the old causeway south out of the island city.
2024 - Excavation at the Indians' chapel. Archaeological remains exposed beside the chapel at the shrine. Mexico City, 2024. Digging at Tepeyac reaches pre-conquest layers under the Christian ones.
2024 - The old basilica dome. Detail of the interior of the dome of the old Basilica of Guadalupe. Mexico City, 2024. The old church was built between 1695 and 1709 and now leans visibly.
2024-06-18 - La historia de la Antigua Basílica De Guadalupe. A history of the old Basilica of Guadalupe. The seventeenth and eighteenth century structure still stands beside its replacement.
2024-10-26 - La Basílica de Guadalupe: Tesoro de México y Patrimonio de la Humanidad.. A piece on the Basilica of Guadalupe as a treasure of Mexico. Record attendance reached 6.1 million pilgrims across 11 and 12 December 2009.
2024-12-09 - San Juan Diego: El Hombre Humilde que Cambió la Historia con un Milagro. An account of Juan Diego as a humble man who changed history. He was declared venerable in 1987, three years before beatification.
2024-12-09 - “La Increíble Historia de Juan Diego y la Virgen de Guadalupe”. A retelling of the story of Juan Diego and the Virgin. The image is said to have remained on his tilma when presented to Archbishop Juan de Zumárraga.
2024-12-11 - Historia de la Virgen de Guadalupe - Bully Magnets - Historia Documental. A history of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Archbishop Alonso de Montúfar promoted the devotion in 1556 against Franciscan opposition.
2024-12-13 - Arquitectura de la BASÍLICA DE GUADALUPE || Historia y diseño || 12 de diciembre. An account of the architecture and history of the Basilica of Guadalupe. The complex holds both the old and new churches on the same site.
2024-12-14 - Largo aliento - La Virgen de Guadalupe ¿Existe o la imaginamos? (14/12/2024). Canal Once asks directly whether the Virgin of Guadalupe existed or the image was painted. Zumárraga's extensive surviving writings contain no mention of the apparitions or of Juan Diego, which is the central problem for the traditional account.
2024-12-25 - Danzantes Concheros hns Olmos Basílica de Guadalupe 2024. Conchero dancers at the Basilica of Guadalupe in 2024. The concheros dance in the atrium throughout the feast.
2025-02-28 - Documental de la Peregrinación Ciclista de La Purísima de Bravo ala Basílica de Guadalupe en La CDMX. A documentary on a cycling pilgrimage. Riders cover hundreds of kilometres over several days.
2025 - The Pocito from the causeway. The Capilla del Pocito seen from the road. Mexico City, 2025. Its tiled domes and star-shaped windows make it the most admired building on the site.
2025-07-17 - ¿ VERDAD o MITO? El CERRO del TEPEYAC, Un Santuario Ancestral. An examination of whether the hill of Tepeyac was an earlier sanctuary. Objections to the account go back to Juan Bautista Muñoz in 1794.
2025-08-11 - Crónicas de barrio - Barrio Alto y Barrio Bajo: Las dos caras de Cuautepec (11/08/2025). Canal Once's Crónicas de barrio covers the two neighbourhoods of the shrine district. The pilgrimage economy shaped the whole area.
2025-12-07 - ¿Qué realmente vio Juan Diego? La historia completa de la Virgen de Guadalupe. An account asking what Juan Diego actually saw. The apparitions are placed over four days in December 1531 at Tepeyac, with a fifth to his uncle Juan Bernardino.
2025-12-11 - La Virgen de Guadalupe: El Milagro que Cambió la Historia. A devotional account of the Guadalupe story. The Codex Escalada, found in 1995 and dated 1548, reopened the debate, and sceptics question its authenticity.
2025-12-12 - El Encuentro Milagroso: La Historia de Juan Diego y la Virgen de Guadalupe (Animada). An account of the encounter between Juan Diego and the Virgin. The apparition dates fall on 9 to 12 December Julian and 19 to 22 December Gregorian.
2025-12-16 - Peregrinación anual a la Basilica de Guadalupe desde San Juan Ixtenco 2025. An annual pilgrimage to the Basilica filmed in 2025. Parish groups organise the journey year after year.
2026-03-09 - Basílica de Guadalupe: historia del subsuelo, las criptas y el Tepeyac colonial. An examination of the Basilica's subsoil and crypts. The complex sits on the same unstable lakebed clay as the rest of the old city.
2026-03-25 - Tepeyac (1917): La Película Más Antigua del Cine Mexicano que Rescató un Milagro. An account of Tepeyac from 1917, described as the oldest surviving Mexican feature film. Religious subjects were among the earliest treated by Mexican cinema.
2026-04-14 - La Basílica de Guadalupe: Historia, Arquitectura y Fe.. A short piece on the Basilica's history, architecture and faith. The shrine is described as the most visited Catholic site in the world, a claim that should carry its date and source.
2026 - An altar in a Guanajuato alley. A shrine to the Virgin of Guadalupe set into an alleyway. Guanajuato, 2026. Street altars are maintained by the households on the alley rather than by the parish.
2026 - Bullet marks at Churubusco. Damage from the 1847 fighting still visible on the convent walls. Mexico City, 2026. The building is now the Museo Nacional de las Intervenciones.