At a shrine in the northeastern corner of Mexico City, lines of worshippers on four moving walkways glide beneath the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe. A basket-laden woman in an embroidered blouse raises a knotted hand and murmurs a prayer in Mazahua. A couple tries to frame a selfie with the Virgin. In the plaza outside, ringed by religious souvenir shops selling candles, rosaries, and pastel-hued, Virgin-shaped plastic bottles of holy water, a priest dashes holy water over a team of cyclist-pilgrims in matching neon safety vests with fresh calla lilies taped to their handlebars, while families stretch out on blankets and cook quesadillas over portable braziers in a temporary tent city. The side streets are choked with a caravan of wooden-walled trucks festooned with marigolds and metallic streamers — another transportation and lodging option for the 20 million pilgrims who visit the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe every year, which surpasses the Vatican as the most-visited Catholic holy site in the world. Technically, the Catholic church does not agree. He downloads them onto USB flash drives, which he places in a discreet wooden box in front of the image of the Virgin. They stay there for 15 days, after which Melchor erases the flash drives and replaces them with new ones.


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