Most Aztec cities and towns either were destroyed during the Spanish Conquest or were occupied and then buried under later settlements. The few surviving sites were small, unassuming peasant villages.

The Virgin purportedly appeared to an Aztec peasant, Juan Diego, for the first time on a hill called Tepeyac on Dec. 9, 1531, and told the Christian convert, in his native language of Nahuatl ...

Aztec society: Class structure and roles Aztec ... The majority of Aztecs were commoners or peasants, many of whom were skilled farmers, artisans and traders. At the bottom were slaves, often ...

You're referring to the Virgin of Guadalupe, the brown-skinned apparition of the Virgin Mary who tradition says appeared before the Aztec peasant Juan Diego in December 1531 just outside modern ...

You don’t have to travel all the way to Mexico City to admire the image of the Virgin Mary that millions believe miraculously appeared on the cloak of an Aztec peasant in 1531. A full-size copy ...

All the Aztec instruments of definite pitch were tuned ... discovering that where the simplicities of Haydn leave peasants cold, the complexities of Stravinsky roll them in the aisles.

Dear Jewish Moor: You're referring to the Virgin of Guadalupe, the brown-skinned apparition of the Virgin Mary who tradition says appeared before the Aztec peasant Juan Diego in December 1531 just ...

There, on Wednesday, he will canonize Juan Diego, the Aztec peasant believed to have had a vision in 1531 of the Virgin of Guadalupe, the icon of Mexico’s Spanish and Indian cultures.

(RNS) While other manifestations of Mary only claim a region or country at best, Guadalupe is the only one to reign over two continents. (RNS) Mexicans will tell you that 90 percent of them are ...