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,, The image of the VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE in ayate fiber, for more than 500 years.28.5.23.

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,, The image of the VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE in ayate fiber, for more than 500 years

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Speaking of the image itself, the attention of textile experts is drawn to the miraculous preservation of the fabric of Juan Diego’s tunic, on which the image of the Virgin was printed. The tunic is woven from ayate fiber (from the Mexican species called «agave potula zac») that crumbles at 20 years of age, as has been verified in repeated reproductions made on purpose. However, Juan Diego’s tunic, after so many years, continues without tearing or decomposing, despite having been exposed for more than a century on a damp wall, amid the smoke of thousands of candles and touched by the hands of crowds of indians
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What is the reason for this wonderful quality as if it were an immortal fabric, refractory to dust and moisture? Some thought it could be due to the kind of paint that covers the fabric. In this regard, a sample was sent to be analyzed by the German scholar, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Dr. Richard Kuhn. His answer stunned the scientists. He said that the colorants in the image did not belong to the vegetable, mineral or animal kingdom. As if to say: it is something so extraordinary that it seems superhuman
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Other scientists studied the image (Dr. Callagan of the NASA science team and Professor Jody Smith) and their conclusions were that the image had been painted directly without trial and error. There were no brushstrokes. The technique used was unknown in the history of painting. But there is something more inexplicable still. The Peruvian Dr. Aste Tonsmann, applying the digitalization technique to the eyes of the Virgin, that is, photographing the eyes of the Virgin and magnifying them 2,500 times, was surprised that in the iris of the image appeared: a Indian at the moment of displaying his tunic before a Franciscan; the Franciscan himself on whose face a tear can be seen; a young countryman with his hand placed over his beard in a gesture of surprise; an Indian with a naked torso in an almost praying attitude; a curly-haired woman (probably a black servant woman); a man, a woman and some children with half shaved heads and other Franciscan religious. That is to say, the same episode reported by Antonio Valeriano at the time of the miracle and which remains a permanent miracle in the eyes of science, which can only say that it is inexplicable that in a space as small as the cornea of the image’s eye , of seven millimeters, it has been possible to paint in miniature about 15 people
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Even, according to the latest research by the Mexican oculist Dr. Escalante, a venous network even appears painted on the upper eyelid of the right eye. Something surprising that no painter of the time could have done microscopically and, moreover, so that no one could see it at that time.
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The Virgin of Guadalupe is mestizo (the morenita) and her mestizo face, neither Indian nor white, is a face that invites peace between winners and losers, between whites and indigenous people, because She is the Mother of all. Her coat color is green-blue. Among the Aztecs, only the emperor could wear that color. By presenting herself with this color, it is as if she were saying that she is the Emperor, the Queen of the Universe. She is pregnant and the rays of the sun surround her person, as if they came from that divine son who is a sun (the sun was a god for the indigenous people). She is therefore full of sun, full of grace.
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On the other hand, it has been discovered that the stars of the Virgin’s mantle correspond to the stars in the sky as they were that day of her apparition, seen from Mexico. As if our Mother had wanted to leave us her signature, the exact date and time of her appearance: 4:40 p.m. on December 12, 1531.
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Another important fact. In the eyes of the Virgin the bishop appears with some priests and laymen of different races: Indians, blacks and Spaniards, forming a single Church. And she says to all of us, as she did to Blessed Juan Diego: «My son, don’t let your heart be troubled or worry about anything. Am I not here that I am your Mother?» Another curious thing is to note that, in the pupil or apple of the eye, there is a family (father, mother and three children), something that could only be seen in the 20th century. In this century in which the family has been so threatened by divorce, infidelity and abortion, Mary has had a message for all men. The family is at the center of her attention. She put an end to the brutal Aztec custom of human sacrifice and today, like yesterday, she also wants to put an end to so many human sacrifices that take place for abortion. Let us listen to this message from our Mother, Mother of all, that she leads us to Christ (she has a cross around her neck) and she wants the unity and fidelity of the family, and that she always be the defender of the unborn life.
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