 For years, this movies original prints were under restoration at  the Mexico National Autonomous University Filmotheque (Filmoteca de  la UNAM), to be finally released in 2001. During 2000, Mexican music  ensemble LAUDES was comissioned to write a score for the  (silent)movie. On 1 August 2002, on occasion of Juan Diego being  elevated to Sainthood, Mexican TV Channel Once TV broadcast the  fully restored movie from the original surviving prints, as a  special event, with LAUDES performing the score compiled for the  movie, which included authentic prehispanic instruments and music  (for the sequences involving Juan Diego and the Virgin) and musical  pieces from the early 1910s.