| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Guadalupe and Her Faithful: Latino Catholics in San Antonio, from Colonial Origins to the Present. By Timothy Matovina. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xviii, 232 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8018-7959-0. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8018-8229-X.)

Ever since the Virgin Mary, mother of Christ, appeared to a poor Indian named Juan Diego on Tepeyac hill outside Mexico City in December 1831 the memory of la virgen de Guadalupe has played a central role in Mexican and Mexican American identity and worship. The relationship between the memory of la virgen and the Catholic faithful has been addressed in numerous popular and scholarly works. Timothy Matovina has added substantively to this literature with his new book, which explains the historical trajectory of that relationship through a study of the faith, rituals, and sociocultural forces that have shaped the Mexican American parish of San Fernando in San Antonio, Texas, for nearly three hundred years. Matovina's book locates that parish's experience in the broader context of Mexican American history and thereby argues that expressions of Marian piety have been widespread, complex, and diverse.

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