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Zapopan (zäpōpän`), city (1990 pop. 668,323), Jalisco state, SW Mexico; est. 1541. In close proximity to Guadalajara, Zapopan is a growing city. It is a commercial center for the surrounding region. The Basilica of Our Lady of Zapopan, who is said to have brought peace by a miraculous intervention in the Mixtón War (1539–42), makes the city a pilgrimage point as well as a tourist spot. ZapopanCity (pop., 2000: 910,690), north-central Jalisco state, west-central Mexico. Located in the Guadalajara River valley, it is a commercial and manufacturing centre for an agricultural area that produces corn, sugarcane, cotton, fruits and vegetables, and livestock. Beekeeping and tourism also contribute to the economy. The 17th-century Basilica of Zapopan is the site of annual pilgrimages. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network) reported in October 2004 during the Eucharistic Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, that three million people joined in the procession to escort the diminutive image of Our Lady of Zapopan to her shrine in Zapopan, a suburb of Guadalajara. 5 million loan to Centro Medico Puerta de Hierro, a new healthcare facility going up in the town of Zapopan, near Guadalajara, Mexico. With no little irony, Brazilian theologians Done Gebara and Marfa Clara Bingemer cite the homily preached by Pope John Paul II in Zapopan, Mexico, where he pointed to Mary of the Magnificat as a model for those "who do not passively accept the adverse circumstances of personal and social life and are not victims of alienation, as they say today, but who, with her, proclaim that God 'raises up the lowly' and, if necessary, 'overthrows the powerful from their thrones. |
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