The Image of GuadalupeMercer University Press, 1994 - 132 páginas The world-renowned Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe has mystified and evoked the adoration of millions since its first appearance in Mexico City in 1531. The origin of the Image has baffled believer and skeptic alike. In his unparallelled examination of the Guadalupe mystery, Professor Jody Brant Smith, equally sensitive to the demands of objectivity and reverence, diligently applies current techniques of scientific and historical scrutiny like that used in investigating the Shroud of Turin to determine if the Image is attributable to myth or miracle. Here he continues his discussion of the enigmatic origin and history of the Image and offers new insight from his career-long exploration of the Guadalupan mystery. |
Contenido
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Impossible Coincidences | 29 |
In Search of Mary | 35 |
The Image Lost and Found | 45 |
The Right Eye of the Virgin | 53 |
Science and the Miraculous | 61 |
The Living Image | 71 |
The Prime Relation | 93 |
Americas Oldest Book | 96 |
The Apologia of Mier | 107 |
Proofs of the Apparition | 113 |
Annals of Bartolache | 117 |
Reply of Fr Juan de Tovar | 118 |
Pensacola and Guadalupe | 121 |
Bibliography | 127 |
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Página 111 - Sahagun, writing fifty years after the Conquest, says: "Now that the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe has been built there, they call her Tonantzin too. . . . The term refers ... to that ancient Tonantzin and this state of affairs should be remedied, because the proper name of the Mother of God is not Tonantzin, but Dios and Nantzin. It seems to be a satanic device to mask idolatry . . . and they come from far away...
Página 29 - Synchronicity therefore means the simultaneous occurrence of a certain psychic state with one or more external events which appear as meaningful parallels to the momentary subjective state — and, in certain cases, vice versa.
Página 45 - Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman,* adorned with the sun, i st 6:io J^ £ standing on the moon, and with the twelve stars on her head for a crown.
Página 2 - ... popular song and verse. Her shrine at Tepeyac, immediately north of Mexico City, is visited each year by hundreds of thousands of pilgrims, ranging from the inhabitants of far-off Indian villages to the members of socialist trade union locals. "Nothing to be seen in Canada or Europe...
Página 49 - Aquinas) who has for the most part caught the imagination and the devotion of the Mexicans. This fact shows in countless ways. Anyone who has walked among the mountains or through the fields and orchards of Switzerland, Bavaria, Austria, or France, will recall coming again and again, even in out-of-the-way places, upon little shrines of the Christ hanging upon the Cross. This is the true and natural symbol for orthodox Catholicism. Nevertheless, in journeys covering hundreds of miles radiating from...
Página 1 - an estimated ten million bow down, before the mysterious Virgin, making the Mexico City church the most popular shrine in the Roman Catholic world next to the Vatican.
Página 20 - In the collection of the Museum of the American Indian in New York City there is a very large scalp — complete with the ears of the victim!
Página 39 - ... and if the beasts stumbled under the burden, they were stabbed by their impatient drivers, and the holy pavement streamed with their impure blood. A prostitute was seated on the throne of the patriarch; and that daughter of Belial, as she is styled, sung and danced in the church to ridicule the hymns and processions of the Orientals.
Página 120 - I sent to you the orations of the Pater Noster, etc., and of the general confession, and other matters of our faith, as the ancients wrote and learned them by their characters, which were sent to me by the old men of Texcoco and Tula. And this will be enough to show in what manner the ancients wrote their histories and orations. Also I...