Our Lady of Guadalupe

Our Lady of Guadalupe (Spanish: Virgen de Guadalupe, Virgin of Guadalupe ') is a miraculous image of Mary. On December 9, 1531 will be published four times the " dark-skinned Lady " on the outskirts of Mexico City to the Indian Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin ( 1474-1548 ). It instructed Juan Diego to transmit the local bishop, that the mountain of this phenomenon a chapel should be built. This led to the bishop in doubt. Only when the Indio before the bishop spread your cloak and it was the miraculous image of Mary, the bishop acknowledged that desire. At the place of publication, a chapel was first built in 1709, the first basilica was consecrated, which was later converted into a museum. In 1974, the new Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe was dedicated.

Our Lady of Guadalupe is the most important Marian shrine of Mexico and is one of the most famous pictures mercy. The Sanctuary Villa de Guadalupe is a suburb of Mexico City and is located on the hill of Tepeyac.

Tradition

Before Christopher Columbus set out on his great voyage of discovery, he should have asked the "Black Madonna" to protection and assistance in Spanish monastery of Guadalupe. To praise and thanks he devoted the first trodden by him, Archipelago of the "Santa Maria de Guadalupe de Extremadura ".

In the original text Nican Mopohua, a part of the religious treatise Huei tlamahuiçoltica, the legend of the apparition in Nahuatl is told.

Worship

1576 Pope Gregory XIII issued. the pilgrims to the shrine a fully drain coming, Pope Benedict XIV declared Our Lady of Guadalupe patron saint of Mexico, Pope Leo XIII. led the celebration of the day of remembrance of their appearance on 12 December, one in Latin America. Pope John XXIII. called the Mother of God in honor of 12 December 1960 to 12 December 1961 a Marian Year, and Pope John Paul II presented the Americas under the protection of Mary and wrote Our ​​Lady of Guadalupe in honor of a prayer of consecration.

The statue

The miraculous image is the image of the Virgin Mary, she is represented in the form of a young girl in rose-colored dress and blue green, übersätem of stars coat. The "model" of the Virgin of Guadalupe is the "Black Madonna" in the monastery of Guadalupe, in the Spanish province of Cáceres, which is, however, represented as Mother of God with child.

The Mexican image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is a crescent moon Madonna So it is in relation to the Book of Revelation 12.1 EU

Some interpretations describe the miraculous image as a message to the native Indians of Mexico: The blue-green cloak of the Madonna as the color described that the divine couple Ometecuhtli and Omecihuat 've worn, the belt is interpreted as a sign of pregnancy, the cross-shaped sash symbolizing the cosmos.