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New documents discovered and new contributions Recent research and discoveries have confirmed the ancient data of a constant " traditio " of Guadalupe from the 16th century, and even lead to the confirmation of the actual existence of Juan Diego. Annually her shrine at Tepeyac, a little north of Mexico City, is visited by millions of pilgrims ranging from the Indian villages to the members of socialist trade unions. Anthony Messenger Magazine Online. Would you back down from a challenge on this blog? She wasn't honored at the main temple, but then, no women were. The reasons for these are several. In the year-old abbot of the Basilica of Guadalupe , Guillermo Schulenburg , was forced to resign following an interview published in the Catholic magazine Ixthus, in which he was quoted as saying that Juan Diego was "a symbol, not a reality", and that his canonization would be the "recognition of a cult.
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I couldn't wait to wear the shirt back home in Brookfield, Illinois, the Southwest Chicago suburb where few people looked like me, spoke Spanish, or even understood the significance of la Virgen de Guadalupe. Getting that shirt was the first time I remember feeling a proud ownership of my indigenous roots. Over the years, my grandmother would send me all kinds of Virgen de Guadalupe-branded items—bracelets, prayer cards, and charms made in her image. When it arrived, it was broken into hundreds of shards. Although it was nearly damaged beyond repair, I couldn't bring myself to toss it.
So I spent weeks super-gluing it back together. The sculpture still sits in my closet today as a reminder of my grandmother and Mexican heritage. The main celebration for the Virgin of Guadalupe is on December 12th, the date that she appeared to the Indian Juan Diego in People travel from all over the country, some for weeks by foot, to attend the celebration.
La Virgen de Guadalupe isn't just precious to me and my family. As the National Museum of Mexican Art describes, "Her name and image have become synonymous with Mexicanidad Mexican-ness as she embodies the central theme to which any study of Mexican identity must inevitably return. The origin of la Virgen de Guadalupe dates back to December 12, On this date in Tepeyac, which is located on the outskirts of Mexico City, an indigenous shepherd named Juan Diego saw a vision of the Virgin Mary in Aztec garb.
Mary asked him in his indigenous language to build a temple in her honor. Her brown skin drew similarities to Tonantzin, one of many goddesses worshipped by the Aztec people. Some experts see a conspiracy in Guadalupe's melding of both Aztec and European culture. Instead, they believe it is all a myth that was manufactured by Spain to conquer Mexico by inspiring religious conversion to Catholicism. But regardless of the origin of Guadalupe, modern academics such as Allen Yeh and Gabriela Olaguibel see her as a vehicle for indigenous people used to preserve their own culture amid persecution from the Spanish.
Today, the icon has come to embody Mexico's modern reality as a melting pot. In this, she has also become a rallying point for Mexican people. Associate professor of art history and architecture at DePaul University, Delia Cosentino, who teaches a class on Guadalupe, told me she believes Guadalupe to be the most widely circulated image in the Western Hemisphere. Not to mention her millions of devotees across the globe, and altars all over North and South America, and European cities including Paris, where she has a dedicated altar inside Notre-Dame.
To honor her, people light a candle and say a prayer in her name. And on the anniversary of her appearance to Diego, herds of people travel to the basilica on foot carrying her banner or statute. To better understand her complicated history and the intense devotion she inspires around the world today, I followed up with Cosentino.
They said they saw the story of the apparition as legitimizing their own indigenous Mexican origin, infused it with an almost messianic sense of mission and. Our Lady of Guadalupe holds a special place in the religious life of Mexico and and an account in the indigenous language (Nahuatl) was published in
A girl poses for a picture in a makeshift photo studio outside the Basilica de Guadalupe church in San Salvador, El Salvador on December 12, during the celebration of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Delia Cosentino: She is a Catholic symbol in association with a new tradition. But in more modern times, she's become this national image.
Within each of those categories, she has a variety of meanings. If you're Mexican and indigenous, you may have particular associations with Guadalupe, calling her Tonantzin. But if you're not necessarily indigenous, and yet still Mexican, she's almost synonymous with the flag. The fact that her image is often associated with the oppressed classes is a function of more modern times.
Her ambiguous roots have allowed her to become a symbol for those people who don't have a voice. What role does her skin color play into that?
Microscopic examination revealed that there were no brush strokes. The image seems to increase in size and change colors due to an unknown property of the surface and substance of which it is made. According to Kodak of Mexico, the image is smooth and feels like a modern day photograph. Produced years before the invention of photography. The image has consistently defied exact reproduction, whether by brush or camera. Several images can be seen reflected in the eyes of the Virgin.
The distortion and place of the images are identical to what is produced in the normal eye, which is impossible to obtain on a flat surface.