Author Topic: Stories of Conversion (Read 10136 times)

Persto · « **Reply #75 on:** **Today** at 10:46:37 AM »

One more look at Mary of Agreda- the Lady in Blue- and more details about her life. She died in 1665, and was buried and her coffin was exhumed in 1909. This video contains amazing footage of the actual opening of her tomb in 1909- and shows her miraculously preserved incorrupt body. Mary of Agreda, Pray for us!

Persto · « **Reply #76 on:** **Today** at 11:43:22 AM »

https://cernicalo-mispublicacionesrecientes.blogspot.com/2017/02/papantzin-la-princesa-mexica-que.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papantzin

The Arrival of the Catholic Religion to the New World of Mexico
Ten years before Hernan Cortes and his fellow Spainards arrived in Mexico, Moctezuma, the Emperor of the Mexicas (Aztecs), was already aware that they would come. This was due to the extraordinary story of the death and resurrection of his sister Papantzin. The name Papantzin means Lady butterfly. The suffix tzin in Nahuatl is a reverential title, and indicates Lady. Papantzin lived in Tlatelolco, and was married to the lord of Tlatelolco. He died in a war and she lived in the palace.

In 1509, Papantzin fell seriously ill and died, and the Texcocoans laid her in a tomb. Montezuma himself attended her funeral. One day after the funeral, a girl crossing the palace garden, above the funerary vault where Papatzin had been buried, ran into the Princess. Papantzin called the girl, who, without being aware of the Princess's death and her subsequent burial, approached the Lady, who, in an affable manner, ordered her to bring the butler's wife. The little girl ran to the butler's wife and informed her that the Lady of Tlatelolcas was looking for her, but obviously the woman told her that this could not be possible because Papantzin had died. The girl's insistence forced the woman to look for two more women and go up to the garden to show the girl her mistake, but to her surprise and horror there in the garden was Papantzin.

The Princess ordered the women to bring the butler and the when the butler arrived, she asked him to go and tell Moctezuma the news, but the butler refused the request thinking that the Emperor would refuse to believe him, or that he would be punished severely as a result of disbelieving the news that he was bringing. Papantzin then asked him to communicate the news to the Lord of Texcoco, Netzahualpilli. This ruler arrived in Tlatelolco and like the others was surprised by Papantzin's appearance. She limited herself to ask the favor that the butler had refused- that is to ask her brother to visit her because she had to tell him some things. Netzahualpilli agreed to the request of the Princess and informed the Emperor about his sister. Moctezuma did not wish to offend Nezahualpilli, but with complete disbelief, he agreed to go to the Tlatelolco palace. There to his surprise, like all the others who had seen her, he beheld his sister alive.

Papantzin then told him that she had a message for him, and that she wanted to tell him what had happened to her when she died. She told him how suddenly she found herself in a moor with various paths and a mighty river whose waters flowed with a very loud noise. Papantzin looked for how to cross that river and when she was about to do so, a being appeared to her wearing a long white tunic, with a face resplendent like the sun, with wings and with a strange sign on the forehead. This sign Papantzin made in front of her brother and others listeners, clasping her fingers and making a cross.

This angel informed Papantzin that the moment had not yet arrived for her to cross that river, but that she should bring a couple of messages to her brother Emperor Montezuma. The angel walked Papantzin through the valley, taking her by the hand and talking to her about God, while the Tlatelolca Princess saw skulls, and people moaning and demons like black beings with horns and deer legs.

Then the angel led her to the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, where she saw several large "floating houses" (ships) approach from the horizon, having black crosses on their "wings" (sails) similar to that on her guide's forehead. The Princess was informed that the men in the ships came from a distant land, and would conquer the Aztecs and bring a knowledge of the One True God. Papantzin described to Moctezuma these bearded men with another skin color that would reach Mexica lands and the battles that were to be fought. She called them the men with “helms” and “banners” who would conquer Mexico, and how God invited her once the conquest war was over, to became the first indigenous woman convert to Catholicism. When she related this vision to Moctezuma, he read the doom of his empire in it, and refused to ever speak to her again. Moctezuma, troubled, returned to Tenochtitlan. The men accompanying him discredited Papantzin and called her crazy. According to the story, Montezuma never saw his sister again.

This story to be continued...

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