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Our Lady of Guadalupe - Message of Trust and Hope
The Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is a marvelous masterpiece of cultural synthesis that presents the Catholic Faith in a way that it was immediately understood and accepted by the native Mexican Indians. It is impossible to describe in few pages the rich symbolism contained on the Tilma of Juna Diego because every detail of color and of form carries a theological message:
Face. The face of Our Lady is that of a mestiza girl; an ethnic anticipation, since at that time there were no mestizos of that age in Mexico. Mary thus assumes the sorrows of thousands of children, the first of a new race, which at that time were rejected both by the Indians and by the Spanish conquerors.
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