Mami, why can't I remember when I first learned about La Virgen?

Mexican children are first introduced to Guadalupan devotion through material objects (i.e., home altars and statuettes of saints) and popular Catholic practices such as dressing children in indigenous traditional clothing on the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. In this way, children become familiar with La Morenita before they can comprehend her significance in Mexican Catholicism. Our Lady of Everyday Life (Oxford University Press, 2018)