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{{Short description|Novohispanic priest, writer and theologian}}
{{for|persons of a similar name|Miguel Sanchez (disambiguation)}}
'''Miguel Sánchez''' (1594–1674) was a [[New Spain|Novohispanic]] [[priest]], [[writer]] and [[theologian]]. He is most renowned as the author of the 1648 publication ''Imagen de la Virgen María'', a description and theological interpretation of an [[Marian apparition|apparition]] to [[Juan Diego]] of the [[Blessed Virgin Mary|Virgin Mary]] as [[Our Lady of Guadalupe]] which is the first published narrative of the event. The precise nature of the cult before that date and whether the tradition as to the apparition dates back to 1531 (as Sánchez claims), constitute a vexed historical problem. The existence of a cult of the Virgin Mary at a chapel (or ermita) at Tepeyac, focussed on a painted cult image of the Virgin and enjoying a reputation for miraculous healing, was certainly established by 1556.<ref>This is the content of the complaint made by Francisco de Bustamante in a sermon delivered in Mexico City on 8 September 1556, an investigation into which was conducted by order of Archbishop Montúfar; see, ''e.g''., Jacques Lafaye, "Quetzalcóatl and Guadalupe" (1974) Eng. trans. University of Chicago Press, 1976, pp.238-241. Lafaye dismisses the hypothesis that it was Sánchez who invented almost the whole tradition; see ''ibid''., p.246.</ref> Professor Brading, a scholar of [[History of Mexico|Mexican history]], noted of Sánchez: "even if he did not initiate the devotion, he determined the manner in which the image was exalted and justified."<ref>{{cite book|last = Brading|first = D.A.|title = Mexican Phoenix Our Lady of Guadalupe:Image and Tradition Across Five Centuries|publisher = Cambridge University Press|year = 2001|location = Cambridge|isbn = 0-521-80131-1|url-access = registration|url = https://archive.org/details/mexicanphoenixou00dabr}}, p.11</ref>

Sánchez was born in New Spain (today's [[Mexico]]) and studied at the [[Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico|Royal and Pontifical University]] in [[Mexico City]]. He sought teaching positions but did not get them. On various occasions he served as chaplain of the chapel of Our Lady of Los Remedios, and in 1662 he joined an archconfraternity of secular priests which was later constituted as the first [[Oratory of Saint Philip Neri]] in Mexico.<ref>For brief biographical notes, see: Stafford Poole, C.M., "Our Lady of Guadalupe", University of Arizona Press (1995), p.101; Brading, ''op.cit''., p.73; {{cite journal | last = Matovina | first = Timothy | year = 2003 | title = Guadalupe at Calvary: Patristic Theology in Miguel Sanchez's Imagen De la Virgen Maria | journal = Theological Studies | volume = 64 | issue = 4 | pages = 795+ | doi = 10.1177/004056390306400406 | s2cid = 170301245 }}</ref>

His work makes use of the [[typology (theology)|typology]] of [[Augustine of Hippo]], although applying it not to events in the New Testament but rather to events alleged to have occurred the previous century in Mexico.

He was buried at the sanctuary of the Virgin at Guadalupe, having been her lifelong devotee and the first of the "four evangelists" of the Guadalupan apparition.<ref>On the "four evangelists of Guadalupe" (''viz''., in addition to Sánchez, Lasso de la Vega, Becerra Tanco and Francisco de la Florencia), see Brading, ''op.cit''., p.329.</ref>

==See also==
[[Luis Lasso de la Vega]]

==References==
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