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This is the photograph of the Blessed Virgin Mary– Our Lady of Guadalupe, miraculously printed on the visionary Juan Diego’s tilma (his cape) in one of her apparitions in Guadalupe, Mexico in 1531.
Not only a church, eventually the Basilica of Guadalupe, was built on the site of the apparition. The tilma, the relic, has been kept in this cathedral and left in its natural state (i.e. without any chemical preservatives) for more than 400 years. The image on the tilma is one of the Virgin surrounded by the light of heaven and the stars of the winter solstice sky. The stars represented on the Virgin’s mantle are said to be the exact constellations that were present at the time the tilma was presented to the bishop. It remains complete and on display to this day. Basilica de Guadalupe is, by far, the most popular religious pilgrimage site in the Western Hemisphere and the Americas.
Last updated: 13 August 2011
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