Our Lady of the expectation of Zapopan
Mexico (1541)
Patron of Jalisco state and the city of Guadalajara, the Virgin of Zapopan is revered throughout Mexico.
In 1541, ten years after the miraculous Guadalupan events, Franciscan Fray Antonio de Segovia, who baptized thousands of Indians in the following years, gave the statue to the new mission of Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion de Zapopan near present day Guadalajara.
Devotion increased after she saved the region from the plague of 1653. She wears the sky-blue sash of a nineteenth century general and holds a scepter and staff and is known as La Generala.
Her feast day is October 12. Archbishop Francisco Orozco y Jiménez crowned the statue Queen of Jalisco on January 18, 1921.
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Source: "365 Days with Mary" by Michael O'Neill
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