For none of her many miracles has the Virgin of Guadalupe got so much credit as for this.

To be sure, it is not generally mentioned in orthodox histories of the affair, that she was brought to the capital a year or two before the earthquakes happened.
Talking of earthquakes, it is to be remembered that we are in a district where they are of continual occurrence.

If one looks carefully at a line of houses in a street, it is curious to see how some walls slope inwards, and some outwards, and some are cracked from top to bottom.

There is hardly a church-tower in Mexico that is not visibly out of the perpendicular.

Any one who has noticed how the walls of the Cathedral of Pisa have been thrown out of the perpendicular by the settling down of the foundations, will have an idea of the general appearance of the larger buildings of Mexico.