The devotion of the Creole and Indians for the Virgin of Guadalupe was so big that everyone approved and supported Hidalgo when he used it as a symbol in a banner. Besides of having the people plentifully identifying with the symbol of the dark skin virgin, it also proclaimed that divinity supported the insurrection. On their part, the Europeans or Spanish natives traditionally venerated the Virgin of Remedies. The conquistadors had brought her to America . Looking the unbelievable response of the protectors of the Guadalupe, the king's army needed a patron of an equal or greater power, this way viceroy Venegas hoisted the Virgin of the Remedies. After the solemn procession, in the cathedral of Mexico , he put the command cane at the feet of the Virgin and fitted on her a band and at the same time he named her General of Realist Troops.

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