Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe: Magnificent sacred basilica in Mexico City (Part – 2)

By Asad Russel –

After Part – 1
At the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe what to see:
In the flamboyant of 70s style was built, than a church more like a stadium looks like the new basilica. But of the building the history or the architecture is not focused here, but held here the holy services and relic. In a circular shape it was built so that inside it by everybody can be seen of the apron the image.

In the new basilica above the altar behind the bullet proof glass hangs the image of Virgin Mary containing the original miraculous apron. Below the cloak a distance transport the crowds in two directions going walkways moving. Again to see it if you want, in the opposite direction going take the people mover, as you want as many times you can do that.

With olive skin of a woman is the picture, of European images the white skin rather than, the Mexicans and mestizo descendants of them to both indigenous which has appealed. Similarly, to have appeared to be supposed she that the man was an Indian the Juan Diego, not a Spaniard or other European. Throughout the Mexico’s history of indigenous rights by Advocates has thus been used the image of the Our Lady of Guadalupe, by the movement of Zapatista most recently.

There is the Antigua Basilica or the old basilica which is more attractive, from the 1536 which dates, over the years made with various additions. By the Manuel Tolsa was sculpted the altar. A museum of ex-votos which contains of the miracles hand pained depictions, in gratitude to Mary or a saint dedicated now houses the basilica, there are also paintings, from the 15th to 18th centuries the applied and decorative art, sculpture and famous religious art.

There is a statue of Juan Diego outside the Antigua Basilica, in summer 2002 with his canonization in the Americans the first indigenous saint who became. In 1003 with a center of visitor information a new plaza, auditorium and museum opened. There is a garden or the Jardin del Tepeyac outside the museum to the archbishop showed the cloak the Juan Diego commemorating the moment.

With the infrared rays in 1981 by the Philip Serna Callahan was studied wore Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin the apron. He reported after the study that, in one step had been painted the portions of the mantle, hands, robe and face, with no strokes of paintbrush and no corrections and sketches.

In 1936 the Richard Kuhn who was the Nobel Chemistry Prize recipient said that, from a source of animal, mineral or vegetable was not the coloring. By the several ophthalmologists from 1956 started the studies and to the present continuing still which includes in 1956 the Dr. Javier Torroella Bueno and in 2001 Dr. Jose Aste Tonsmann, 2,500 times the photographs after amplifying in the eyes of the Virgin reflected images to have found claims that. A group of Franciscans and Native Americans reflect the pupils.

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