La Virgen de Guadalupe

britabroad says on Jun 5, 2009, 15:43:

Could someone tell me exactly how many "virgins" there are in the Latin world?

Okay, I´ll rephrase that.
Does anyone know why there are so many virgins..... no, that doesn´t work either.

Try again.
As a person brought up listening to the monotonous dronings of the Church of England, I was led to understand that the only virgin in Christianity was the mother of Jesus.
Since moving to Colombia, however, there appear to be several virgins (such as the one shown above) who are deified and worshipped throughout South and Central America.

Are these virgins just another name for the Virgin Mary, or are they different people?
Were they visions of the original virgin seen by drunken conquistadors, or was the existance of a virgin in Latin America such a rarity that whenever one was discovered she was worshipped?

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dwmte7 says on Jun 5, 2009, 19:18:

it's all of the above. it's all about braggin rights...ya know....."really man, she's a virgin!...i swear."

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kalder says on Jun 6, 2009, 05:40:

The enormous amounts of churches, shrines and dedications to the 'Panagia' in the Greek Orthodox world would make the Latin Virgins seem far and few.

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dwmte7 says on Jun 6, 2009, 07:04:

you never fail me, brother. how's life and times?

patriarch

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