History and Enigma of Our Lady of Guadalupe
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History and Enigma of Our Lady of Guadalupe
One Saturday in 1531, at the beginning of December, an Indian named Juan Diego, went very early in the morning from the town where he lived to Mexico City to attend his catechism classes and to hear the Holy Mass. As he reached the hill called Tepeyac, it was dawn and he heard a voice calling him by name.
He climbed to the top and saw a Lady of superhuman beauty, whose dress was shining like the sun, who with very kind and attentive words said to him: "Juanito: the smallest of my children, I am the ever Virgin Mary, Mother of the true God, for whom one lives. Go to the Bishop and tell him that I want a temple on this plane. Go ahead and put all your effort into it".
Returning to his village, Juan Diego met the Virgin Mary again and explained what had happened. The Virgin asked him to go again the next day to speak with the bishop and repeat the message to him. This time the bishop, after listening to Juan Diego, said that he had to go and tell the Lady to give him some sign that would prove that she was the Mother of God and that it was her will that a temple was built for her.
Back, Juan Diego found Maria and told her the facts. The Virgin ordered him to return the next day to the same place, because there she would give him the sign. The following day Juan Diego could not return to the hill, because his uncle Juan Bernardino was very sick. At dawn on December 12, Juan Diego left in a hurry to find a priest for his uncle, as he was dying. Upon reaching the place where he was supposed to meet the Lady, he preferred to take another path to avoid her. Suddenly Maria came out to meet him and asked him where he was going. The embarrassed Indian explained to him what was happening. The Virgin told Juan Diego not to worry, that his uncle would not die and that he was already healthy. Then the Indian asked him for the sign that he should take to the bishop. Maria told him to go up to the top of the hill where she found fresh castile roses and putting them in the poncho, she cut as many as she could and took them to the bishop.
Once in front of Don Zumárraga, Juan Diego unfolded his blanket, the roses fell to the ground and the poncho was painted with what is known today as the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Seeing this, the bishop took the holy image to the Greater Church and built a hermitage in the place that the Indian had been famous for.
Pius X proclaimed her "Patroness of all Latin America", Pius XI of all "Americas", Pius XII called her "Empress of the Americas" and John XXIII "The Celestial Missionary of the New World" and "the Mother of the Americas". .
The image of the Virgin of Guadalupe is venerated in Mexico with greater devotion, and the miracles obtained by those who pray to the Virgin of Guadalupe are extraordinary.
Dear brother, did you know that scientists have come to the conclusion that the dyes used in painting the mantle do not belong to the earthly world and contain a high degree of radiation?
In 1929, Alfonso Marcue, official photographer of the ancient Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, had the impression of seeing the image of a bearded man reflected in the right eye of the Virgin. After several analyzes of his black and white photograph, he had no doubts and decided to inform the Basilica authorities. He was instructed to maintain complete silence regarding the discovery. More than 20 years later, on May 29, 1951, José Carlos Salinas-Chavez examined a good photograph of the face and rediscovered the image that clearly appears to be a man with a beard reflected in the Virgin's right eye, locating it also in the left eye. .
Since then, several people have had the opportunity to take a closer look at the Virgin's eyes on the tilma. The first report of the eyes in the image, issued by a doctor, certifies the presence of a triple reflection (Samson-Purkinje effect), characteristic of every living human eye; the result says that the images are located exactly where they should be according to such an effect, and also that the distortion of the images matches the curvature of the cornea. In the same year, another ophthalmologist examined the image's eyes with an ophthalmoscope in great detail. He noted the human-like appearance of the corneas in both eyes, with the location and distortion of a normal human eye, and especially noticed a unique appearance of the eyes: they look strangely alive when examined.
Now, the details observed in the iris of the image are: an Indian in the act of unfolding his tilma before a Franciscan; the Franciscan himself, on whose face a tear is seen flowing; a very young person, having his hand over his beard with an air of consternation; an Indian with a bare torso, in an almost prayerful attitude; a woman with curly hair, probably a black woman, servant of the bishop; a man, a woman and some children with half-shaved heads; and other religious dressed in Franciscan habit. This is... the same episode related in náhualt by an anonymous indigenous writer in the first half of the 16th century and edited in náhualt and in Spanish by Lasso de La Veja in 1649.
Even though exposed to veneration for centuries, the cloak has never been damaged! In 1921, a man left a load of dynamite just below the image. When it exploded, it demolished part of the church, but nothing happened to the image.
Even for the most skeptical, these are facts that deserve serious reflection.