Newspapers of Juan Bautista
The Diaries of Juan Bautista - also known as Annals of Juan Bautista - are a set of written in Nahuatl language made by the Texcoccan Juan Bautista of the neighborhood of San Juan, in the sixteenth century. The importance of the Diaries is that they are one of the oldest to the cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Tepeyac. characteristics
The texts written by Juan Bautista are inscribed in the indigenous tradition of the annals, which was more or less widespread in the first years after the Conquest. The importance for the Guadalupe cult is that it mentions the "apparition" of the Virgin Mary in Tepeyac and an act of donation of a statue by Antonio Villaseca to the Guadeloupe hermitage. Below are the extracts in Nahuatl and their translation into Spanish of this text.
Nahuatl Text:
In Ypan xihuitl 1555 years old icuac monextitzino in Santa María de Guadalupe in ompac Tepeyac.
Spanish text:
In 1555, when Santa María de Guadalupe was deigned to be there in Tepeyac.
Nahuatl Text:
Sunday to fifteen of September 1566 years icuac in octava mochiuh in tonantzin nativitas Maria auh icuac ompa ilhui quixtilloto in Tepeyac Sta. Maria of Guadalupe ompa tlama in Villaseca quinexti in ixiptlatzin tonantzi za moch teocuitlat motquitica in quichiuh ihuan calli quimaman in oncan cochi cocoxque ...
Spanish text: Sunday, September 15, 1566, when [...] our Mother Nativitas Maria was octave, and when they went to celebrate the feast in Tepeyac to Santa María de Guadalupe. There Villaseca made offerings: he made present an image of Our Mother; all covered with gold, took it and made the gift of rooms where the sick sleep.
Juan Bautista located the mariofanías in 1555, 24 years after the date accepted by the Catholic Church for the mariofanías of Tepeyac. It also notes that the feast of the Virgin of the hermitage of Tepeyac occurred on September 8 of the Julian calendar and not on December 12, in contrast to the date that is celebrated today. This same statement is given by Servando Teresa de Mier in one of his letters.
It was for the Legal Information of 1666 for which we requested and got a party and own Mass for Our Lady of Guadalupe and the translation of the date of the feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe, from September 8 to December 12 , the last date on which the Virgin appeared to Juan Diego. Due to this information in 1754 the Congregation of Rites confirmed the authentic value of the apparitions and granted the celebration of Mass and Office proper for the feast of Guadalupe for December 12.
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