The Virgin of the Remedies and Mexican independence-era miracle narratives

Record summary

Nuestra Señora de los Remedios was an established colonial Marian devotion whose image became entangled with competing royalist and insurgent meanings during the Mexican War of Independence. Nineteenth-century accounts and commemorations describe processions, protective intercession and sacred rivalry with Guadalupe. The case matters because the same image could be mobilized as a political talisman by different communities. It is best treated as a history of devotion, ritual and memory rather than proof of battlefield intervention; the chronology and details vary across ecclesiastical, military and nationalist sources.