Editing Our Lady of Guadalupe (section)

===Literature and film===
[[File:Tepeyac (versión restaurada).webm|thumb|thumbtime=30:23|''Tepeyac'' from 1917 is the oldest movie about the aparitions of Guadalupe]]
One notable reference in literature to the image and its alleged predecessor, the Aztec Earth goddess [[Tonantzin]], is in Sandra Cisneros' short story "Little Miracles, Kept Promises", from her collection ''Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories'' (1991). Cisneros' story is constructed out of brief notes that people give Our Lady of Guadalupe in thanks for favors received, which in Cisneros' hands becomes a portrait of an extended Chicano community living throughout Texas. "Little Miracles" ends with an extended narrative (pp.&nbsp;124–129) of a feminist artist, Rosario "Chayo" de León, who at first did not allow images of La Virgen de Guadalupe in her home because she associated her with subservience and suffering, particularly by Mexican women. But when she learns that Guadalupe's shrine is built on the same hill in Mexico City that had a shrine to Tonantzin, the Aztec Earth goddess and serpent destroyer, Chayo comes to understand that there's a deep, syncretic connection between the Aztec goddess and the Mexican saint; together they inspire Chayo's new artistic creativity, inner strength, and independence. In Chayo's words, "I finally understood who you are. No longer Mary the mild, but our mother Tonantzin. Your church at Tepeyac built on the site of her temple" (128).<ref>Cisneros, Sandra.  "Little Miracles, Kept Promises."  ''Woman Hollering Creed and Other Stories''.  New York: Random House, 1991. 116–129.</ref>
The image and its alleged apparition was investigated several times, including in the 2013 documentary ''The Blood & The Rose'', directed by Tim Watkins.<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q127689082|title=The Blood & the Rose}}</ref>