Is Our Lady of Guadalupe also Mary the mother of Jesus?

Answer 1

The Virgen de Guadelupe is a Roman Catholic icon in Mexico representing an appearance by the Virgin Mary. It is a very important cultural symbol for Mexicans. This icon is also known as Our Lady of Guadalupe and as La Virgen Morena, the brown-skinned Virgin.

Answer 2

According to the Guadalupe tradition, a poor Indian named Juan Diego saw a vision of the Virgin Mary on 9 December 1531, at the place in Tepeyac where there had been a temple of Tonantzin, 'Mother of the Gods'. She asked him to have a chapel built there in her honour. In 1648 a book about the vision and the image that appeared on the peasant's cloak was written by a priest named Miguel Sanchez. If the book was actually based on what Father Sanchez believed to to have occurred a little over a hundred years earlier, then Our Lady of Guadalupe may well be the same as Mary.

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Answer 3

Yes. Mary appeared to a poor Indian, Juan Diego, who had recently converted to Catholocism, on a hill north of what is now modern Mexico City. She told Juan Diego that her name was Our Lady of Guadalupe or, at least, that is how it was interpreted by Bishop Zumaraga to whom Juan Diego had related the story.

Answer 4

According to the Guadalupe tradition a poor Indian named Juan Diego saw a vision of the Virgin Mary on 9 December 1531 asking him to have a chapel built in Tepeyac in her honour. 9 December is, of course, the day after the feast of the Immaculate Conception. 1531 was barely ten years after the Spanish Conquest.

Bishop de Zumárraga at first rebuffed Diego but at the fourth apparition the Virgin instructed him to pick the flowers growing unseasonably on the hill at Tepeyac, fill his cactus fibre mantle with them and go thus to the bishop. When he opened his cape and the flowers fell out, a miraculous likeness of the Virgin Mary was found imprinted upon it. The bishop was convinced - although exactly how he knew this really represented the Virgin Mary is unclear.

The story of the Virgin of Guadalupe attracted no attention at the time, and seems to have remained unknown for over one hundred years. Only then did a remarkable book, written by a priest named Miguel Sanchez, make the image of Mary something which everyone suddenly knew about. It is a matter of faith and trust that Father Sanchez was describing events that had really occurred so long before. If so, then it would seem that the Virgin of Guadalupe was indeed the Virgin Mary. Others say that the story of Guadalupe was created to assist in converting the Indians to Christianity.

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Answer 5

Our Lady of Guadalupe is popularly considered to be a visitation or image of Mary the mother of Jesus.

On the other hand, some historians say that the 16th century Spaniards created the legend of Our Lady of Guadalupe as a Christianisation of the ancient Mexican mother goddess, Tonantzin, through an image said to have appeared on a simple peasant's cloak. The supposed purpose was to encourage the conversion of the indigenous population of early Mexico. On this evidence, Our Lady of Guadalupe is not the virgin Mary at all.

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Answer 6

Yes, Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of the manifestations of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Many historians will conclude that this was made up because they will not consider the possibility of something supernatural. There is in fact a huge amount of scientific evidence that says that this image is genuine. Besides the fact that the material that the tilma is made of is only supposed to last 40 years, there are images of people in the eyes that takes advanced Photography to find and could never have been painted on 400 years ago. The stars on the tilma are in the exact positions as the stars in the constellations were at the time the image appeared. The decorations on the dress are in the exact locations they would be on a map of the mountains, rivers, and principle lakes in central Mexico. The color has not faded. A professor from NASA examined in and concluded that the perfect preservation of the color could not be explained. On top of all this, there have been a great many miracles associated with it.

Since Our Lady of Guadalupe is not an article of faith, belief in her is not a requirement for Catholics. They are free to accept or reject the story. The event has been thoroughly investigated by the Church and it has determined that there is nothing contrary to Catholic doctrine in the cult.

Answer 7

Yes, the Virgin Mary and the Virgin of Guadalupe are one and the same.

Answer 8

Yes; one and the same.

Answer 9

Yes, one and the same.