Guadalupe of Tepeyac in the colonial sources

The earliest witness opened here is Sahagún, who describes Tepeyac in the 1570s as a Tonantzin pilgrimage the friars found suspect. The apparition account enters print in the next century, is cited by page and edition in 1755, is denied by the royal chronicler of the Indies, and in 1830 is printed against by an editor who says he would rather not — because a London edition was coming and a silent omission would look like a fraud.