Well, sure. But, again, I will leave you with just one.
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Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico. In 1531 a peasant, Juan Diego, receiving apparitions of the Virgin Mary was instructed to visit the local bishop with a message. He kept being refused until Our Lady told him to pick some roses and deliver them in his cloak or tilma. Roses do not bloom in December, supposedly, but there they were and when Juan unveiled his tilma to show the bishop the roses fell to the ground and the miraculous image of Our Lady was imbedded on his cloak. 500 years later, it remains one of the greatest mysteries in world history, despite all our skeptics who are sure they have it all accounted for.
The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe has been the subject of numerous and extensive scientific investigations since 1751 and none of the results offered any sound scientific explanation which defies all human reasoning as it continues to baffle experts.
The "tilma" (a kind of cloak worn by native Mexicans) of Juan Diego that bears the miraculous Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is a coarse fabric made from the threads of the maguey cactus fiber which usually lasts no more than 20 to 30 years, and yet the fabric has maintained its structural integrity - without cracking or fading, or any sign of deterioration for nearly 500 years. [Note: Some objectors claim it is made from hemp not cactus, but that charge is highly debatable. Still it does not discredit all of the other inexplicable qualities of this image in any way.]
There is no explanation offered by NASA scientists on how the image was imprinted on the Tilma. There are no brush strokes, or sketch marks on it.
The colors actually float above the surface of the tilma at a distance of 3/10th of a millimeter (1/100th of an inch), without touching it. When examined less than 10 inches of the image, one can only see the maguey cloth; the colors totally disappear.
In 1936, biochemist Richard Kuhn, a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, analyzed a sample of the fabric and ascertained that the pigments used were from no known source; whether natural, animal, mineral, or vegetable.
On May 7, 1979, Americans Dr. Philip Serna Callahan, a biophysicist at the University of Florida and an expert in infrared photography photographed the image under infrared light and scanned at very high resolutions. He discovered that portions of the face, hands, robe, and mantle had been painted in one step, with no sketches, or corrections, and no visible brush strokes or sizing used to render the surface smooth, no protective varnish covering the image to protect its surface.
Scientists have been unable to find any trace of paint residue or dye of any sort on the Image and yet the colors maintain their luminosity and brilliance. The quality of the pigments used for the pink dress, the blue veil, the face and the hands, or the permanence of the colors, or the vividness of the colors after several centuries, during which they ordinarily should have deteriorated, defy all scientific reasoning.
The Image still retains its original colors, despite being unprotected by any covering during the first 100 years of exposure. According to the specialists of Kodak Corporation in Mexico, the Image is smooth and bears more resemblance to a color photograph than anything else.
Many who have scientifically examined the image of Our Lady over the centuries confess that its properties are absolutely unique and so inexplicable in human terms that the image can only be supernatural. 8 million indigenous Mexican people are baptized within 10 years of the images appearance.
When asked who she was Mary responded “Call me and call my image Santa Maria de Guadalupe". It's believed that the word Guadalupe was actually a Spanish mis-translation of the local Aztec dialect. The word that Mary probably used was Coatlallope which means "one who treads on snakes"!
The web sites are endless on this subject. Here is but one.
http://infallible-catholic.blogspot....r-lady-of.html
