"There is no doubt that everyone is called to repent and convert, but, practically speaking, conversion means totally different things to different people, depending on where they are within socio-cultural structures" (Elizando 2002: 81). In his book, Guadalupe: Mother of the New Creation, Virgil Elizando explores and illustrates the truth in the above statement, and how this change of heart, called conversion, is actually brought about. He does this by comparing the means and methods of conversion …showed first 75 words of 1549 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1549 total…destruction of a peoples' way of life; a change of heart from a point of understanding, not a conversion at the point of a sword. That which identified the Nahuatl as unique among the peoples of the earth, and had been a point of contention, horror, and disgust to the Spanish, was the very means used by La Virgen de Guadalupe to bring a new beginning for Christianity to the indigenous peoples of Meso-America.