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Madre Maria in Mexico.

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From: Catholic Insight
Date: 20061201
Author:Hansen, Mary

D.H. Lawrence wrote a novel about Mexico in the 1920's, a time of fierce persecution of the Catholic Church in that country. In his novel The Plumed Serpent, we read about Dona Carlota as she speaks to her Irish friend, Kate. The "Ramon" to whom she refers is her husband, the leader of a group devoted to Quetzelcoatl, the Aztec serpent god. "Could you follow Ramon? Could you give up the Blessed Virgin? I would sooner die!" She continues: "Ah senora, as if a woman who had ever known the Blessed Virgin could ever part from her again!"

Marian devotion

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