NICAN MOPOHUA: THE FOURTH APPARITION - THE THIRD MEETING WITH ZUMARRAGA
147. When he arrived at the Bishop’s residence, the doorkeeper and the other servants of the Governing Priest went to meet him,
148. and he begged them to tell him how much he wanted to see him, but none of them was willing; they pretended they didn’t understand him, or perhaps because it was still very dark;
149. or perhaps because they felt by now that all he did was bother them and keep on insisting,
150. and their companions had already told them, the ones who lost him from sight when they were following him.
151. For a long, long time he waited for his request to be granted. 152 And when they saw that he was simply standing there for a long, long time with his head down, without doing anything, in case he should be called, and that it looked as if he was carrying something, as if he was bringing it in the hollow of his tilma – then they came up close to him to see what he was bringing and thus satisfy their curiosity.
153. And when Juan Diego saw that there was no way in which he could hide from them what he was carrying and that therefore they might harass him or push him perhaps rough him and the flowers up, he finally gave them a little peek and they say that it was flowers.
154. And when they say that they were all exquisite different flowers and that it wasn’t the season for them to be blooming, they were very, very astonished by how fresh they were, how good they smelled, how handsome they seemed.
155. And they wanted to grab and pull a few out;
156. They dared to try to grab them three times, but there was no way in which they could do it
157. because when they would try, they could no longer see the flowers, they saw them as if they were painted or embroidered or sewn on the tilma.
158. They went immediately to tell the Governing Bishop what they had seen,
159. and how much the lowly Indian who had come other times wanted to see him, and that he had been waiting a very long time there for permission, because he wanted to see him.
160. And as soon as the Governing Bishop heard it, he realized that this was the proof to convince him to get started on what the humble man was asking him for.
161. He immediately ordered that he come in to see him.
162. And when he had come in, he prostrated himself in his presence, as he had done before.
163. And again he told him what he had seen and admired, and his message.