An image suddenly appears. Many years later, upon microscopic examination, much smaller images are discovered inside the originally visible large image. All of this happens on a fabric which has not been decomposing even though many years have passed.
The image is on the tilma, or the cloak, of an impoverished person named Saint Juan Diego, who lived in what is now known as Mexico. In December 1531, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Juan Diego. He went to the archbishop to relate to him how Our Blessed Mother Mary had told him that a church should be built there in her honor. The archbishop asked for a sign to prove who she was. At her instruction, Juan Diego gathered roses up into his cloak. When he opened his cloak before the archbishop and the roses fell onto the floor, there on his tilma was the image of Our Lady Of Guadalupe, whose feast day we celebrate today.
In recent years scientists have closely examined the tilma. Able to magnify portions of it, they have found fourteen persons depicted in the eyes of the image of Our Lady Of Guadalupe.
Normally a tilma like this would have started coming apart once twenty years had passed. However, after nearly 500 years, the tilma has stayed together.
Here I have related only three miraculous properties of the tilma bearing the image of Our Lady Of Guadalupe. I find these scientifically inexplicable phenomena encouraging my faith in God, in Jesus, born of Our Blessed Mother Mary.
The image is on the tilma, or the cloak, of an impoverished person named Saint Juan Diego, who lived in what is now known as Mexico. In December 1531, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Juan Diego. He went to the archbishop to relate to him how Our Blessed Mother Mary had told him that a church should be built there in her honor. The archbishop asked for a sign to prove who she was. At her instruction, Juan Diego gathered roses up into his cloak. When he opened his cloak before the archbishop and the roses fell onto the floor, there on his tilma was the image of Our Lady Of Guadalupe, whose feast day we celebrate today.
In recent years scientists have closely examined the tilma. Able to magnify portions of it, they have found fourteen persons depicted in the eyes of the image of Our Lady Of Guadalupe.
Normally a tilma like this would have started coming apart once twenty years had passed. However, after nearly 500 years, the tilma has stayed together.
Here I have related only three miraculous properties of the tilma bearing the image of Our Lady Of Guadalupe. I find these scientifically inexplicable phenomena encouraging my faith in God, in Jesus, born of Our Blessed Mother Mary.
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