Dawn at Tepeyac

the long version

A retelling of the crucial moments of stagnation and despair immediately following the Spanish conquest of Mexico, a catastrophe barely averted by the apparitions of the Virgin of Guadalupe on a mountain above the lake cities in December of 1531. Through the eyes and minds of the Chichimec St. Juan Diego and the first bishop of Mexico, Fray Juan de Zumárraga, the reader enter into the tumultuous and almost hopeless situation of the conquered and the conquerors alike, and comes away with an understanding and love of the indigenous cultures as well as sympathy for the Spanish conqueror.