One of the world's most famous and most reproduced images, the Virgin of Guadalupe from ancient

Mexico, has a history that goes all the way back to the Spanish conquistadors and the

baptism of millions of Aztecs by the Catholic Church.

But it was much more than a simple piece of devotional art.

It was a marketing tool, devised as part of a complicated and devious plan.

We're going to find out all about that.

Right now, Unskeptoid.

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The Virgin of Guadalupe.

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