Today is December 12, 2012: the Feast Day of Our Lady of Quadalupe!!
She is patroness of the Unborn and the Americas. It all happened in about 1530 in what is now Mexico but then it was the territory of the Aztec Indians who were pagans and worshiped both the sun god and the snake god. Our Lady put an end to both of those false pagan idols.
Here is how she did it! 20% of the Indian children were sacrificed each year to the sun god and the snake god to assure good crops and blessings. These children were innocent and dies a violent death.
Our Lady is Patroness of the Unborn and is totally devoted to saving the lives of Children in and out of the womb. She was able to stop all child sacrifice in that territory as well as convert 10 million Indians to the Catholic Faith. How could she do all that? What was her master plan?
1) First, she became good friends with an Indian named Juan Diego who had become Catholic because of the Spanish having settled in that area.
She appeared to Juan many times...and cured his uncle. But Juan wanted to avoid to have to tell the Bishop to build a shrine ..a church..so she could bring the Indians to Christ. But Juan thought he was too little of a person to carry such a request...He tried to avoid Our Lady and took another different way home, But Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared on his alternate route too; and she told him to gather the Roses growing on the hill she first appeared to him and to give them to the Bishop as a sign of her being really appearing to Juan and to validate her requests for the Bishop to build a church there. This was her plan to convert the Indians not to get praise to herself. Juan picked the roses, roses of castille, and put them in his tilma which is made from cactus fiber into a cloak. Mary knew that the Bishop was a lover of plants and a sort of horticulturist. She knew that roses do not bloom like this in winter and that these roses were not native to this territory.
2) Juan Diego went to the Bishop and openned his tilma and the flowers fell forth. But the Bishop and the others in the room feel to their knees. Juan was behind the tilma and did not see what they saw at first; but then he looked and saw the beautiful image of Our Lady of Guadalupe on the tilma! She was beautiful!
3) She wore blue and had stars on her gown. The stars were later analyzed as the exact constellation of stars in the year 1531 in December!
4) But more startling things were associated with this tilma that is now over 500 years old:
a) The image has been scientifically analyzed and was determined that there is no known paint or element which makes the image. It is not on the atomic chart.
b) The cactus fibers only last 20 years; but this tilma has lasted 500 years in perfect preservation.
c) In her eyes, there are the images of Juan Diego and the Bishop looking surprised which the eyes of the Virgin has captured. Also these images of Juan and the Bishop are in both eyes along with Indians in the room. Just one of these images would be much much smaller than hairs of a paint brush. The image of the Bishop is true and compares perfectly with a painting of him made in the 1530's. The curvature of the eyes are perfect human eyes following the laws of opthamology.
d) Just a full copy of this image that toured the US has caused cures...and the eyes have shown tears.
e) Our Lady of Guadalupe (named after a shrine in Spain) appeared in front of an abortion clinic to beg the mother about to abort her child to save the child's life and the child and she were precious to God. The mother kepted her child. Mary is again trying to save children from child sacrifice. But in the US, 25% (not the Aztec's 20%) are sacrificed and killed by abortion.
May Our Lady of Guadalupe -- whose image on the Tilma is preserved and shown over the high altar in the Cathedral church in Mexico City -- preserved us. May what she said to now Saint Juan Diego: "Why are you worried? Am I not your mother and do I not protect you under my mantle?"
Because of this image -- that shows Mary blocking out the sun god's rays and stepping on the serpant god -- 10 million Indians were converted to the Catholic faith.
Our Lady of Guadalupe is an image of a pregnant Indian woman with the coloring of the yet-to-be-born Mexican Nationality. Her coloring was the color of the mixture of Spanish and Indian peoples.
Mary always appears as to be accepted by the people as their own. Her black sash was the sign of the Indian women of the day that the woman was pregant.
Our Lady of Guadulupe, Pray for us!! We love you!
Love and peace, Pio xoxo
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