Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark.
- Thomas Allibone Janvier
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![most respectable people is made clear by the fact that the Archbishop himself—who at that period was the illustrious Don Fray Garcia de Santa Maria Mendoza—was the friend of them; and especially the friend of Don Tristan the elder, who frequently consulted with him in regard to the state of his soul. So a number of prospering years passed on, Senor, and then, on a time, Don Tristan the son went down to the coast to make some buy¬ ings: and it was in the bad season, and the fever seized him so fiercely that all in a moment the feet and half the legs of him fairly were inside of death’s door. Then it was that Don Tristan, being in sore trouble because of his son’s desperate illness, made the vow that I am telling you about. He made it to the Blessed Virgin of Guadalupe; and he vowed to her that if she would save his son alive to him from the fever he would walk on his bare feet from his own house to her Sanctuary, and that there in her Sanctuary he would make his thanks to her from the deep depths of his soul. And the Blessed Virgin, being full of love and of amiability, was pleased to listen to the prayer of Don Tristan, and to believe the vow that [24]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31349043_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
