 Father Miguel Sánchez (1594–1674) studied at the University of Mexico, but was eventually not accepted as a member of its faculty. Sánchez is the author of Imagen de la Virgen María (1648) in which he offers a theological and philosophical interpretation of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Even though the influence of Saint Augustine is dominant in his analysis, Sánchez was one of the first intellectuals to approach human history from a Latin American perspective.