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TRAVELS IN MEXICO.

ddress their wounds, there was erected some years later a church dedicated to Our Lady of Succor,—Nuestra Señora de los Remedios,—and this Virgin of the Remedios was a long time honored, and the people made pilgrimages to her shrine. She was a faithful saint, and did all she could for her worshippers; but as she was the saint of the Spaniards, she was deposed in the revolution, and now the Virgin of Guadalupe reigns supreme.