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The bloody Spanish conquest of Mexico didn't inspire many willing converts to Catholicism. But in 1531, a peasant named Juan Diego claimed to see a mixed-race version of the Virgin Mary speaking to him in Nahuatl, and eight million Mexicans converted in the next seven years. What happened?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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