From Forums of the Virgin Mary [translated]:
Today the world would not be the same without the Miracles of the Virgin of Guadalupe that changed the planet.
Four decades had passed since the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.
Spain was the most Catholic country in the world and its kings were committed to spreading their faith throughout the planet.
And between December 9 and 12, 1531, Our Lady appeared to the converted Indian Juan Diego in the center of the Aztec empire, miraculously healed his uncle, and left us her image stamped on the little Indian’s tilma, which has impressive supernatural characteristics. .
This apparition had phenomenal implications, because it was the first important apparition produced in the new continent that Christians were beginning to convert, it happened in the center of the largest indigenous empire, it converted its population massively and in record time, and laid the foundations for today The Americas are the most Catholic area of the planet.
Here we will present the 7 main supernatural characteristics of the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe del Tepeyac, which shows that the Guadalupana is something that came from heaven and not a devotion created by men with the aim of making this part of the world Christian.
In 1521 the capital of the Aztec empire fell under Spanish forces.
And 20 years later, 9 million indigenous people who for centuries professed a polytheistic and sacrificial religion, converted to Christianity , thanks to the “Lady of Heaven” who appeared to Juan Diego on the hill northwest of what is today the Mexico City.
She identified herself as the Mother of the True God for whom we live, of the Creator of all things, Lord of Heaven and Earth.
He also revealed her name, “the ever Virgin Mary of Guadalupe,” associating herself with the dedication of Extremadura, Spain , which is a black virgin, who according to an ancient tradition would have been sculpted by the evangelist Saint Luke.
That image remained hidden for a long time in Byzantium, and was later taken to Rome by Saint Gregory the Great, who sent it to Saint Leander, Bishop of Seville.
But it was hidden again during the domination of the Moors, until it was miraculously found in the 14th century by a shepherd, and was called Santa María de Guadalupe, after the underground river that passes near the Sanctuary, which was built in 1389.
The miracle that the American continent today is the most Catholic in the world is due to the strong supernatural content that surrounds Guadalupana.
We have grouped the miracles we will talk about into 7 areas.
When the little Indian Juan Diego opened his tilma in front of Bishop Zumárraga, to present him with the roses of Castile as proof of the appearance of the Virgin, everyone saw the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe printed on it.
The first miracle is the tilma itself.
Built from the rustic maguey fiber called ayate, it should have deteriorated, discolored and turned into dust after 10 years, maximum 30 years.
However, it is preserved intact today, after almost 500 years and is exhibited in the Basilica of Tepeyac.
Which today is the third most visited sacred site in the world, with 20 million visits a year.
Even the tilma survived the detonation of twenty-nine sticks of dynamite in 1921, placed in a vase of roses beneath the image by an anticlerical radical, which destroyed a marble railing, shattered windows and twisted a metal crucifix.
The second miracle is the image itself.
Infrared images taken by a NASA specialist discovered that the painting appears to have been done with a single brush stroke, which is impossible for a painter.
Nobel Prize-winning chemist Dr. Richard Kuhn discovered that the color was not of plant, mineral or animal origin and did not belong to any known terrestrial element.
And it was also discovered that the original paint has no signs of cracking, but later additions and touch-ups do.
The third miracle is the eyes.
The famous ophthalmologist Dr. Aste Tonsman discovered the figures of 13 people in the corneas of the image’s eyes, who were present when Juan Diego opened the tilma, seen from the position of the Virgin.
The size of these images makes it impossible for them to have been painted by the human hand , especially on a material as crude as ayate, and at that time lacking current technology.
And it was also discovered that the eyes have the reflexes of a living eye.
The miracle of the eyes is perhaps the most popular of the image miracles.
The fourth miracle is the characteristics of the image of the Virgin.
Studies carried out by NASA discovered that the tilma maintains a constant temperature of 37 degrees, which is the temperature of a human body.
The Virgin is pregnant according to the prominence of her belly and the traditional black belt worn by pregnant Aztecs.
And if you place a stethoscope under the black belt, you can hear the rhythmic beating of the heart at 115 beats per minute, which is that of a baby in the womb.
And her pregnancy status shows that the delivery date would not take more than 20 days, that is, close to Christmas.
The fifth miracle is the communication that the image establishes between the Aztec world and the Christian world.
The image reminds us of the woman clothed with the sun, from Revelation 12, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars and she is pregnant.
It marks the presence of the Savior and the appearance of a mestizo population.
At the height of the belly, guarding the mystery of the Incarnation there is a flower with four leaves, familiar to indigenous Mexican culture.
Whose meaning indicates the point of contact between the visible and invisible world, and the crossroads of the cardinal points.
It is full of other signs that make the link between both cultures, which we will not mention here due to lack of space.
But depending on the distance you look at the image, you will see a woman with European or indigenous features.
At a distance of 2 meters, the skin tone becomes olive, gray-green in tone.
The sixth miracle is in the blue-green mantle, which is the color worn by Aztec royalty.
It is studded with stars, depicting the constellations in the exact position as they would have appeared before dawn on the morning of December 12, 1531 in Mexico City, as viewed from the sky.
The constellation Corona Borealis appears on the head, Guadalupana is crowned with stars as described in Revelation 12.
Virgo, meaning Virgin, appears close to Mary’s heart.
Leo, which means Lion, let us remember the Lion of Judah, appears in the pregnant womb.
And Draco, the Dragon, stands in front of the Virgin’s face.
And the seventh miracle is his participation in the greatest battle in defense of Christian civilization, that of Lepanto, in 1571.
An image of Our Lady of Guadalupe del Tepeyac sailed as an ensign in the Christian fleet.
The image was a gift from Brother Alonso de Montúfar to King Philip II of Spain, who gave it to his half-brother, Juan of Austria, the commander of the Christian fleet at the Battle of Lepanto.
Well, that’s it, we wanted to talk about the accumulation of supernatural characteristics that the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe del Tepeyac has, which were so visible and inescapable, that it led the largest indigenous empire on the continent to convert to Christianity in record time.
And I would like to ask you if you know other miracles and supernatural characteristics of the Guadalupana and what they are.