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Truly Amazing Facts About Our Lady of Guadalupe
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CENTRAL EDITORIAL, 11 Dec. 15 / 04:41 pm (ACI).- On December 12 of each year the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. On that day in 1531, the Virgin Mary appeared to a 57-year-old indigenous man named Juan Diego.
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Juan Diego was proclaimed Saint by Saint John Paul II in 2002.

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In one of their meetings, the Virgin Mary commissioned Saint Juan Diego to collect in her tilma – a very simple cloth – roses from Castile that had bloomed despite the winter so that he could present them to the Archbishop of Mexico, Mons. Juan de Zumárraga, as proof of the apparitions.

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When Juan Diego displayed the tilma with the roses before the Prelate, the image of Our Lady Guadalupe was printed on it. In the next seven years, more than 9 million Aztecs converted to Christianity.

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Here are four truly amazing facts about the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe:
1. It has qualities that are impossible to replicate humanly
Made primarily from cactus fibers, a tilma was typically of very low quality and had a rough surface, making it very difficult to use, much less paint a lasting image on it. However, the image is still intact and the scientists who have studied it insist that no previous technique was used to adapt the surface.

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(The surface is very smooth, like silk. The part where the image is not is still rough and rough.
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Even more so. Infrared photography experts who studied the tilma in the late 1970s determined that there were no brush strokes, resulting in an image that was captured all at once.

This, along with an iridescent quality of slightly changing colors depending on the angle at which a person looks at it, and the fact that the coloring of the image was determined to have no animal or mineral elements (synthetic dyes did not exist in 1531 ), raise many more seemingly unanswerable questions. That is awesome.
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2. People say it’s just a painting but science has proven otherwise
One of the first things skeptics say about the image is that it must somehow be a forgery or fraud, but every time an attempt has been made to replicate the image, the original never seems to fade, while its duplicates have faded. have deteriorated in a short time.

Miguel Cabrera, an 18th-century artist who produced three of the best-known copies (one for the archbishop, one for the Pope, and one for himself for future replicas) once wrote about the difficulty of recreating the image on even the best surfaces. That is awesome.

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3. The tilma has shown characteristics surprisingly similar to those of a human body
In 1979, when dr. Phillip Callahan, a biophysicist at the University of Florida (United States), was analyzing the tilma using infrared technology. He discovered that the fabric maintains a constant temperature of between 36.6 and 37 degrees Celsius, the regular temperature of a living person…..

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When Dr. Carlos Fernández de Castillo, a Mexican doctor, examined the tilma, he found a four-petaled flower on Mary’s belly. The Aztecs called the flower “Nahui Ollin” and it was the symbol of the sun and plenitude…………

After further examinations, Dr. Fernández de Castillo concluded that the dimensions of Our Lady’s body in the image were those of a mother about to give birth soon. December 12 is very close to Christmas.

Finally, one of the most common attributions and reported discoveries is that of the Virgin’s eyes in the image.

Dr. José Alte Tonsmann, a Peruvian ophthalmologist, studied the eyes of the image of the Virgin at a magnification of 2,500 times and was able to identify up to 13 individuals in both eyes in different proportions, just as the human eye would reflect an image.

It seemed to be a capture of the exact moment in which Juan Diego displayed the tilma before Archbishop Zumárraga. That is surprising.
4. It appears to be practically indestructible

Two distinct events have threatened the tilma over the centuries. One of them occurred in 1785 and the other in 1921.

In 1785 a worker was cleaning the glass coating when he accidentally spilled nitric acid solvent over a large portion of the image. The image and the rest of the tilma, which must have been corroded almost instantly by the spill, self-restored over the course of 30 days, and remains intact to this day, with only a few small stains in places where it is not. the picture.

In 1921, an anticlerical activist hid 29 sticks of dynamite in a vase of roses and placed it before the image inside the Basilica of Guadalupe.