The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos: Uncovering Hidden Influences from Spain to Mexico - Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States

Marie-Theresa Hernandez describes the Jewish/Christian religious beliefs of an early nineteenth-century Catholic priest in Mexico City, focusing on the relationship between the Virgin of Guadalupe and Judaism, and tracing the cult of Guadalupe back to its fourteenth-century Spanish origins. She also examines the key players who were somehow immune to the dangers of the Inquisition and who were allowed the freedom to display, albeit in a camouflaged manner, vestiges of their family's Jewish identity.