Maravilla Americana (American Marvel) are the first two words of the lengthy title of a literary masterpiece by Miguel Cabrera (1695–1768), “the genial brush turned to a pen” as it was immediately celebrated, on the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Its translation to Italian gave the pen fame in Europe among artists and clergymen beyond what the brush had accomplished in the Vatican, when Pope Benedict XIV felt impelled to exclaim: “Non fecit taliter omni nationi” from Psalm 147:20—God’s done nothing like it for any other nation—in admiring Cabrera’s copy of the Guadalupan image.