December 12th is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas, Unborness, precurser to Christ in the Etheric - a new understanding of the Logos.
Following the Conquest in 1519–21, the Spanish invaders destroyed a Temple of the Mother Goddess Tonantzin at Tepeyac, a hill outside Mexico City, & built a chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary on the site. Newly converted natives continued to come from afar to worship there, often addressing the Virgin Mary as Tonantzin. In 1531 a “Lady from Heaven” appeared 4 X’s to Saint Juan Diego, & once to his sick Uncle - poor natives of Tepeyac. She identified herself as the “Mother of the True God” & left an image of herself imprinted miraculously on his tilma, a poor quality cactus-cloth. The tilma should have deteriorated within 20 years but shows no sign of decay after 493 years.
Our Lady of Guadalupe is unlike any other apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary. First, it is the only apparition where Our Lady left a miraculous image of herself unmade by human hands. Second, it is the only universally venerated apparition where Our Lady appears pregnant instead of holding the Infant Jesus.
The juxtaposition of Guadalupe & a snake may indicate a nexus with the Aztec goddess of love & fertility, Tonantzin (in Nahuatl “Our Revered Mother“), who also went under the name of Coatlícue (“The Serpent Skirt“).
Some describe her as the Woman of the Apocalypse from the New Testament’s Revelation 12:1, “clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.”
In 1929 & 1951 photographers claimed to have found a figure reflected in the Virgin’s eyes; upon inspection they said that the reflection was tripled in what is called the Purkinje effect, commonly found in human eyes. An ophthalmologist, later enlarged an image of the Virgin’s eyes by 2500x & claimed to have found not only the aforementioned single figure, but images of all the witnesses present when the tilma was first revealed before Zumárraga in 1531, plus a small family group of mother, father, & a group of children, in the center of the Virgin’s eyes, fourteen people in all.
In 1936 biochemist Richard Kuhn analyzed a sample of the fabric & announced that the pigments used were from no known source, whether animal, mineral or vegetable. Dr. Philip Serna Callahan, who photographed the icon under infrared light, declared from his photographs that portions of the face, hands, robe, & mantle had been painted in one step, with no sketches or corrections & no visible brush strokes.
The image has layers of meaning for the indigenous people of Mexico who associated her image with their polytheistic deities, which further contributed to her popularity. Her blue-green mantle was the color reserved for the divine couple Ometecuhtli & Omecihuatl; her belt is interpreted as a sign of pregnancy; & a cross-shaped image, symbolizing the cosmos & called nahui-ollin, is inscribed beneath the image’s sash. She was called “Mother of maguey,” the source of the sacred beverage pulque. Pulque was also known as “The milk of the Virgin.” The rays of light surrounding her are seen to also represent maguey spines.
On 14 November 1921 a bomb hidden within a basket of flowers brought by a secularist damaged the altar, but left the tilma unharmed. A brass standing Crucifix, bent in the explosion, is now preserved at the shrine.
Her message of love & compassion, & her universal promise to help & protect all humankind, as well as the story of the apparitions, are described in the “Nican Mopohua,” written in the native Nahuatl language.
Tradition holds that Juan Diego asked our Blessed Mother her name. She responded in his native language of Nahuatl: “Tlecuatlecupe” which means: “the one who crushes the head of the serpent.” Consequently, when Juan Diego told Bishop Zumarraga her name in his native tongue, he probably confused it with the familiar Spanish name “Guadalupe” - a city with a prominent Marian shrine. The bishop asked him to bring back a sign from Mary to prove the story. Juan Diego reported this to our Blessed Mother, who told him to return the next day to receive “the sign” for the bishop. On December 11, Juan Diego couldn’t go to see the Lady, because he had to spend the day caring for his very sick uncle, Juan Bernardino, who asked Juan Diego to go & bring a priest who would hear his confession & administer the last rites. On December 12, Juan Diego set out again, but avoided Tepeyac Hill because he was ashamed that he had not returned the previous day as our Blessed Mother had requested. While making his detour, the Blessed Mother stopped him & said, “Hear and let it penetrate into your heart, my dear little son: let nothing discourage you, nothing depress you. Let nothing alter your heart or your countenance. Also, do not fear any illness or vexation, anxiety or pain. Am I not here who am your mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I not your fountain of life? Are you not in the folds of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms? Is there anything else that you need?”
Mary reassured Juan Diego that his uncle would not die; in fact, his health had been restored.
As for the sign for the bishop, Mary told Juan Diego to go to the top of the mountain & pick some flowers. He went up to the hill which was dry & barren, a place for cactus, but there he found roses, which are foreign to Mexico. He gathered them in his tilma, a garment like a poncho. He brought them to Mary who arranged them & said to take them to the bishop.
Upon opening the tilma to reveal the miraculous roses to the bishop, there was something even more miraculous present in the tilma–a striking image of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
In the image Our Lady wears the traditional garments of an Aztec princess. A black sash around her waist was a cultural tradition among the Aztec women that indicated pregnancy.
A church was built at Our Lady’s request on the Hill of Tepeyac to mark the apparition site, & today it is the most visited Catholic pilgrimage shrine in the world. Venerated in this cathedral is the original tilma of St. Juan Diego, which still displays the miraculous Our Lady of Guadalupe image.
THE MIRACULOUS IMAGE - Here are just a few from a long list of interesting facts about the Our Lady of Guadalupe image itself:
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Thursday, 12 December 2024
Milk of the Virgin
![Free Friday] The bronze crucifix bent during the anti-Catholic terrorist bombing of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Tilma of Our Lady miraculously survived the explosion perfectly intact. : r/Catholicism](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_2160,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36198661-0564-4963-8b3d-2f07817f25ce_1080x1440.jpeg "Free Friday] The bronze crucifix bent during the anti-Catholic terrorist bombing of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Tilma of Our Lady miraculously survived the explosion perfectly intact. : r/Catholicism")
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