Happy Feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe!
The miracle of the tilma image is proof of God's great love that graces us through the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Here are a few interesting facts about the Our Lady of Guadalupe image:
- The image is proven to not be painted by human hands.
- The image and fabric have miraculously lasted in the original condition for nearly 500 years.
- The weak cactus fiber, of which the tilma was made, should have decomposed within 15-20 years of being woven.
- No natural or animal mineral colorings, or paint, are found on the image.
- The image itself is iridescent, and cannot be produced by hand.
- Mary stands on a crescent moon, the same crescent moon that was in the sky on the day of her apparition.
- Mary's mantle is a constellation map, the same constellations that were in the sky as on the day of her apparition.
- The constellations tell the story of the Gospel with the arrangement of "Leo" in the womb of "Virgo".
- Our Lady's garment is a topographic map of the geographic location of her apparition.
- On Mary's neck is a small black cross, identifying her with the Catholic missionary priests.
- Over her womb on her dress is a four-petal flower—the Aztec symbol of life and divinity.
- In the image Mary is "clothed with the sun" with "the moon at her feet" as described in Revelation 12:1.
- A doctor once heard a heartbeat coming from the image when he placed a stethoscope over the womb.
- The eyes on the image have the refractory characteristics of human eyes.
- Mary's eyes, when examined through a microscope, reflect the images of the witnesses present at the tilma's unveiling, including Juan Diego and the bishop.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas, pray for us!
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