NICAN MOPOHUA: JUAN DIEGO TELLS THE STORY
164. He said to him, "Your Excellency, sir, I have done it. I have carried out your orders,
165. That is, I went to tell my Mistress, the Heavenly Maiden, Holy Mary, the Beloved Mother of God, that you were asking for proof so you could believe me, so that you would make her sacred little house, where she as asking you to build it;
166. And I also told her that I had given you my word to come to bring you some sign, some proof of her will, as you told me to.
167. And she listened carefully to your breath, your word, and was pleased to receive your request for the sign, the proof, so that her beloved will can be done, can be carried out.
168. And today, while it was still night, she ordered me to come again to see you;
169. and I asked her for the proof so that I would be believed, as she had said that she would give it to me, and she kept her promise immediately.
170. And she ordered me to the top of the little hill where I had seen her before, to cut different flowers up there; Castillian roses.
171. And when I had cut them, I took them down to her at the bottom;
172. and she took them with her holy hands,
173. again she placed them in the hollow of my ayate,
174. so that I would bring them to you, so I would give them only to you.
175. Although I knew very well that the top of the hill isn’t a place where flowers grow, because there are only a lot of craggy rocks, thorns, spiny acacias, prickly pears, mesquite bushes. I didn’t doubt because of that, I didn’t hesitate because of that.
176. When I reached the top of the hill I saw that it was now paradise.
177. Every kind of different precious flowers were there, each one perfect, the very finest that there are, full of dew and shining so I immediately cut them;
178. and she told me that I should give them to you from her, and that in this way I would show the truth; that your should see the sign that you were asking for in order to carry our her beloved will,
179. and so that it will be clear that my word, my message, is truth,
180. here they are; please receive them."