On March 23, 1540, the long campaign of religious and political upheaval known as the Dissolution of the Monasteries reached its symbolic terminus at Waltham Abbey. Nestled in Essex and steeped in centuries of royal patronage and spiritual life, the abbey was the last…
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On the morning of December 9, 1531, a widowed Chichimeca-Nahua convert named Juan Diego set out across the northern outskirts of Mexico City toward the Franciscan mission at Tlatelolco to attend Mass. A relatively recent convert to Christianity, Juan Diego had been baptized only…
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