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Witnesses to Mystery
Guadalupe Mysteries: Deciphering the Code
Our Lady of Guadalupe is the most beloved symbol of Mexican Catholicism, and devotion to her is widespread in the USA. While she has entranced and encouraged Mexican Catholics for several centuries, believers and even nonbelievers the world over are inspired and intrigued by her. Millions of pilgrims visit her shrine in Mexico City every year. Both Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis have travelled there to pray for her motherly intercession. And scientists from many disciplines have studied the amazing attributes of her mysterious image. In this glorious, lavishly illustrated book, the renowned author- photographer team Grzegorz Górny and Janusz Rosikon take the reader on an illustrated pilgrimage to Our Lady of Guadalupe. They tell the amazing story of her apparition to Juan Diego in 1531 and its dramatic impact upon the destiny of an entire people. They interview the various experts on the image and reveal its symbolic messages, those of the past and those speaking to us today.
280 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2015
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Grzegorz Górny
31 books15 followersReporter, essayist, publicist, film, and television producer, Grzegorz Górny
Is a journalism graduate from Warsaw University.
The founder and editor-in-chief of the quarterly Fronda (between 1994 and 2005 and from 2007 onwards), from 1994 to 2001 he co-authored a television programme under the same title, aired on the Polish national television station TVP which ran for a total of 150 episodes Grzegorz has produced various documentary television series, including Archive of the 20th century (for TV Puls), The Other Bottom of History (for TVP Historia), Savage Poland (for TVP Polonia), and 2009’s War of the Worlds (for TVP 2 and TVP 1), for which he was also screenwriter and director.
Between 2005 and 2006 he was editor-in-chief of the weekly Ozon. He has authored publications, including 1991’s collection of essays entitled Culprits with Witold Paski and Wojciech Tochman; The Lexicon of literary Noble Prize winners (1993); a collection of essays entitled The Demon of the Afternoon; the album Faith:. Following the Footsteps of Sister Fasustyna (2010; with Janusz Rosikon), a book of journalistic writing entitled Battle for Madrid (2010; with Tomasz Terlikowski). He conducted a series of interviews with Rev. Waldemar Chrostowski, PHD (along with Rafał Tichy) entitled Bóg, Biblia, Mesjasz (God, the Bible, the Messiah) and Kościół, Żydzi, Polska (The Church, Jews, Poles). He's had many articles published in newspapers such as Rzeczpospolita, Życiu Warszawy ( he was their in-house correspondent in the Ukraine 1992/1993), Wprost, Nowym Państwie, Znaku, Christianitas, Teologii Politycznej, the Austrian Der Standard, the Hungarian Heti Valasz, the Ukrainian Post Postup and many more.
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Is a journalism graduate from Warsaw University.
The founder and editor-in-chief of the quarterly Fronda (between 1994 and 2005 and from 2007 onwards), from 1994 to 2001 he co-authored a television programme under the same title, aired on the Polish national television station TVP which ran for a total of 150 episodes Grzegorz has produced various documentary television series, including Archive of the 20th century (for TV Puls), The Other Bottom of History (for TVP Historia), Savage Poland (for TVP Polonia), and 2009’s War of the Worlds (for TVP 2 and TVP 1), for which he was also screenwriter and director.
Between 2005 and 2006 he was editor-in-chief of the weekly Ozon. He has authored publications, including 1991’s collection of essays entitled Culprits with Witold Paski and Wojciech Tochman; The Lexicon of literary Noble Prize winners (1993); a collection of essays entitled The Demon of the Afternoon; the album Faith:. Following the Footsteps of Sister Fasustyna (2010; with Janusz Rosikon), a book of journalistic writing entitled Battle for Madrid (2010; with Tomasz Terlikowski). He conducted a series of interviews with Rev. Waldemar Chrostowski, PHD (along with Rafał Tichy) entitled Bóg, Biblia, Mesjasz (God, the Bible, the Messiah) and Kościół, Żydzi, Polska (The Church, Jews, Poles). He's had many articles published in newspapers such as Rzeczpospolita, Życiu Warszawy ( he was their in-house correspondent in the Ukraine 1992/1993), Wprost, Nowym Państwie, Znaku, Christianitas, Teologii Politycznej, the Austrian Der Standard, the Hungarian Heti Valasz, the Ukrainian Post Postup and many more.
Source (31st August 2014):
http://en.rosikonpress.com/autor_24/G...
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December 19, 2016
Our Lady of Guadalupe is a major Feast Day in the Catholic Church that is celebrated on December 12th. Her image is one of the most revered symbols among Catholics in both Mexico and the United States. Recently Ignatius Press released a book that could be described as an "illustrated pilgrimage." It is entitled Guadalupe Mysteries, and I would like to tell you about it.
The book begins with a prologue on both the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the shrine. It then provides us with a timeline spanning from 1474 (the birth of Juan Diego) to 2003 (the founding of the Higher Institute for Guadalupian Studies). The first chapter tells us briefly about Talking Eagle, later known as Juan Diego and his conversion thanks to Franciscan missionaries. We then learn more about the Franciscans, their missionary work, and the Indian people they converted. This provides us an appropriate context for understanding the life of Juan Diego. The chapter then provides us with a detailed account of the Virgin Mary appearing to Juan Diego.
The second chapter, the most interesting to me by far, deals with the meaning behind all the symbols in the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. There are eighteen symbols in this image the specific colors and symbols each meant something specific to the Aztec people. The middle chapters discussed the history of the Aztecs and the conquest of the Europeans. The later chapters further detail how this image proved to be a challenge for science, the very cool hidden image within Our Lady's eyes, and how the tilma has proven indestructible, even though it should have decomposed after just a few years.
Guadalupe Mysteries continues the rich series of books by Grzegorz Gorny. Mr. Gorny is bringing the riches of the Church to our fingertips with his in-depth research and gorgeously illustrated books. While it is not exactly the same as going to see these relics and treasures in person, it could be considered the next best thing. I'm sure these books will find a lovely home on the coffee table of many Catholic homes, and that would be a good place to display them. But I implore you to use them for more than decoration and use them to deepen your faith. Be sure to check out his other books Witnesses to Mystery, Trust, and the newest one Three Kings, Ten Mysteries, which I will be reviewing on Friday.
The book begins with a prologue on both the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the shrine. It then provides us with a timeline spanning from 1474 (the birth of Juan Diego) to 2003 (the founding of the Higher Institute for Guadalupian Studies). The first chapter tells us briefly about Talking Eagle, later known as Juan Diego and his conversion thanks to Franciscan missionaries. We then learn more about the Franciscans, their missionary work, and the Indian people they converted. This provides us an appropriate context for understanding the life of Juan Diego. The chapter then provides us with a detailed account of the Virgin Mary appearing to Juan Diego.
The second chapter, the most interesting to me by far, deals with the meaning behind all the symbols in the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. There are eighteen symbols in this image the specific colors and symbols each meant something specific to the Aztec people. The middle chapters discussed the history of the Aztecs and the conquest of the Europeans. The later chapters further detail how this image proved to be a challenge for science, the very cool hidden image within Our Lady's eyes, and how the tilma has proven indestructible, even though it should have decomposed after just a few years.
Guadalupe Mysteries continues the rich series of books by Grzegorz Gorny. Mr. Gorny is bringing the riches of the Church to our fingertips with his in-depth research and gorgeously illustrated books. While it is not exactly the same as going to see these relics and treasures in person, it could be considered the next best thing. I'm sure these books will find a lovely home on the coffee table of many Catholic homes, and that would be a good place to display them. But I implore you to use them for more than decoration and use them to deepen your faith. Be sure to check out his other books Witnesses to Mystery, Trust, and the newest one Three Kings, Ten Mysteries, which I will be reviewing on Friday.
March 3, 2017
The most amazing book ever. If you don't believe in miracles after reading this, you are a rock. Everything you've ever wanted to know about our Lady of Guadalupe, from the scientific studies on the tilma, to the history, to how this event is the greatest miracle of evangelization in the history of the world!
February 22, 2023
A large, lavishly illustrated coffee-table book with some interesting insights into Our Lady of Guadalupe and an extremely questionable understanding of 16th century history.
To start: the book looks lovely, with hundreds of pictures both of the image itself and various historical documents, illustrations, and pictures from Mexico. I found Guadalupe Mysteries in my parish’s Adoration chapel, probably its ideal home. (This being said, there were still a surprising number of grammatical errors and inconsistent fonts/typesetting.)
Should you commit to reading the book cover to cover, you will get some interesting insights into the “code” hidden within the image of Our Lady. As a recent convert, I knew very little about the apparition and its relationship to Aztec imagery, Spanish artistic conventions, or the geography of Mexico. Guadalupe Mysteries references an extensive body of scientific research surrounding the image and, one assumes, accurately synthesizes these findings.
However, if you commit to reading the book cover-to-cover, you will also find some extremely questionable depictions of pre-Columbian Mexican history.
First off, the repeated use of the word “Indian” to represent all the indigenous inhabitants of Mexico/Central America before Columbus.
Secondly, the commitment to absolve every Catholic in the New World of any and all responsibility for the destruction of the Aztec empire. Of course, Górny and Rosikón cannot completely wipe the historical record of the atrocities committed by the conquistadors, but these atrocities were certainly only committed by “the bad men,” not virtuous Catholics like Columbus or Cortés.
The continual insistence that the Catholic church (and, by extension, the Spanish Empire) bears no blame for the genocide of indigenous peoples in the New World is both baffling and frustrating. History, as has been shown again and again, is not black and white. It cannot neatly be divided into good and evil, right and wrong. The Aztecs were, by all accounts, quite brutal in their treatment of neighboring tribes and were devoted practitioners of human sacrifice. Conversely, many Spanish religious were fierce advocates for indigenous rights. Were the Aztecs “bad,” then, and the Spanish “good”? Did the Aztecs deserve to lose their empire and be subjugated to Spain? Were the conquistadors justified because they brought Catholicism along with disease and slavery and death? To all these, the book answers subtly and (much less subtly): yes.
“European civilization was superior to Indian civilization in many respects,” Górny and Rosikón conclude (215). In other words: “Conquest is good because at least it made you Catholic.”
And yet the insistence on justifying both conquest and Empire seems completely at odds with the message of Our Lady itself. If the apparition of Our Lady is remarkable precisely because it spoke to both Aztec and Spanish descendants, then surely Our Lady represents a third way, a path between human sacrifice and brutal colonial expansion. Surely, she is healing divisions, forging a new people and (eventually) a new national identity.
The book itself tells us this in the early chapters, and yet the strange insistence that “Catholics did nothing wrong” works against the much more powerful message that what is broken and ruined by man in his greed and his pride can ultimately be healed by Christ and his Blessed Mother.
2.5 stars.
To start: the book looks lovely, with hundreds of pictures both of the image itself and various historical documents, illustrations, and pictures from Mexico. I found Guadalupe Mysteries in my parish’s Adoration chapel, probably its ideal home. (This being said, there were still a surprising number of grammatical errors and inconsistent fonts/typesetting.)
Should you commit to reading the book cover to cover, you will get some interesting insights into the “code” hidden within the image of Our Lady. As a recent convert, I knew very little about the apparition and its relationship to Aztec imagery, Spanish artistic conventions, or the geography of Mexico. Guadalupe Mysteries references an extensive body of scientific research surrounding the image and, one assumes, accurately synthesizes these findings.
However, if you commit to reading the book cover-to-cover, you will also find some extremely questionable depictions of pre-Columbian Mexican history.
First off, the repeated use of the word “Indian” to represent all the indigenous inhabitants of Mexico/Central America before Columbus.
Secondly, the commitment to absolve every Catholic in the New World of any and all responsibility for the destruction of the Aztec empire. Of course, Górny and Rosikón cannot completely wipe the historical record of the atrocities committed by the conquistadors, but these atrocities were certainly only committed by “the bad men,” not virtuous Catholics like Columbus or Cortés.
The continual insistence that the Catholic church (and, by extension, the Spanish Empire) bears no blame for the genocide of indigenous peoples in the New World is both baffling and frustrating. History, as has been shown again and again, is not black and white. It cannot neatly be divided into good and evil, right and wrong. The Aztecs were, by all accounts, quite brutal in their treatment of neighboring tribes and were devoted practitioners of human sacrifice. Conversely, many Spanish religious were fierce advocates for indigenous rights. Were the Aztecs “bad,” then, and the Spanish “good”? Did the Aztecs deserve to lose their empire and be subjugated to Spain? Were the conquistadors justified because they brought Catholicism along with disease and slavery and death? To all these, the book answers subtly and (much less subtly): yes.
“European civilization was superior to Indian civilization in many respects,” Górny and Rosikón conclude (215). In other words: “Conquest is good because at least it made you Catholic.”
And yet the insistence on justifying both conquest and Empire seems completely at odds with the message of Our Lady itself. If the apparition of Our Lady is remarkable precisely because it spoke to both Aztec and Spanish descendants, then surely Our Lady represents a third way, a path between human sacrifice and brutal colonial expansion. Surely, she is healing divisions, forging a new people and (eventually) a new national identity.
The book itself tells us this in the early chapters, and yet the strange insistence that “Catholics did nothing wrong” works against the much more powerful message that what is broken and ruined by man in his greed and his pride can ultimately be healed by Christ and his Blessed Mother.
2.5 stars.
November 3, 2019
To trzecia przeczytana przeze mnie książka duetu dziennikarza Grzegorza Górnego i fotografa Janusza Rosikonia, którzy dokumentują i przybliżają historie chrześcijańskich relikwii, objawień maryjnych, czy postaci świętych.
W "Sekretach Guadalupe" opisują historię objawień Maryi Indianinowi Juanowi Diego, w 1531 r. na terenie obecnego Meksyku. Materialnym dowodem tych objawień jest wizerunek Maryi utrwalony na płaszczu Juana Diego, który można oglądać w bazylice Matki Bożej z Guadalupe. Wizerunek niezwykły, którego powstanie do dzisiaj nie daje się wytłumaczyć metodami naukowymi - po prostu "nie ludzką ręką uczyniony".
Podtytuł książki to: "Rozszyfrowanie ukrytego kodu" i trzeba przyznać, że ilość zagadkowych informacji znajdujących się w wizerunku Maryi jest ogromna, a ich odkrywanie razem z autorami - fascynujące.
Podobnie jak w "Tajemnicach Fatimy", gdzie Grzegorz Górny opisywał tamtejsze objawienia na tle historii Europy w XX w., tak i objawiania na wzgórzu Tepeyac przedstawił w kontekście ówczesnych wydarzeń i ich późniejszych konsekwencji. Były to dramatyczne czasy - zaledwie dziesięć lat po przybyciu Hiszpanów i podboju Azteków oraz innych plemion przez konkwistadorów. Świat mieszkańców prekolumbijskiej Ameryki zawalił się w ciągu kilku lat z całą cywilizacją i religią. Górny dowodzi jak wizerunek Maryi na płaszczu Juana Diego wpłynął na chrystianizację całego obszaru zwanego dzisiaj Ameryką Łacińską. Nawrócenia Indian były dobrowolne i tak masowe, że garstka misjonarzy nie nadążała z udzielaniem sakramentu chrztu. Miało to olbrzymi wpływ na integrację Indian z Hiszpanami i w efekcie powstanie nowego społeczeństwa. Autor przeciwstawia to podbojowi Indian w Ameryce Północnej przez protestanckich przybyszów, którzy w zasadzie dokonali ich eksterminacji, a nielicznych ocalałych umieścili w rezerwatach.
Doskonała książka - także pod względem edytorskim, wydana na kredowym papierze, z mnóstwem ilustracji, reprodukcji i autorskich zdjęć Janusza Rosikonia.
W "Sekretach Guadalupe" opisują historię objawień Maryi Indianinowi Juanowi Diego, w 1531 r. na terenie obecnego Meksyku. Materialnym dowodem tych objawień jest wizerunek Maryi utrwalony na płaszczu Juana Diego, który można oglądać w bazylice Matki Bożej z Guadalupe. Wizerunek niezwykły, którego powstanie do dzisiaj nie daje się wytłumaczyć metodami naukowymi - po prostu "nie ludzką ręką uczyniony".
Podtytuł książki to: "Rozszyfrowanie ukrytego kodu" i trzeba przyznać, że ilość zagadkowych informacji znajdujących się w wizerunku Maryi jest ogromna, a ich odkrywanie razem z autorami - fascynujące.
Podobnie jak w "Tajemnicach Fatimy", gdzie Grzegorz Górny opisywał tamtejsze objawienia na tle historii Europy w XX w., tak i objawiania na wzgórzu Tepeyac przedstawił w kontekście ówczesnych wydarzeń i ich późniejszych konsekwencji. Były to dramatyczne czasy - zaledwie dziesięć lat po przybyciu Hiszpanów i podboju Azteków oraz innych plemion przez konkwistadorów. Świat mieszkańców prekolumbijskiej Ameryki zawalił się w ciągu kilku lat z całą cywilizacją i religią. Górny dowodzi jak wizerunek Maryi na płaszczu Juana Diego wpłynął na chrystianizację całego obszaru zwanego dzisiaj Ameryką Łacińską. Nawrócenia Indian były dobrowolne i tak masowe, że garstka misjonarzy nie nadążała z udzielaniem sakramentu chrztu. Miało to olbrzymi wpływ na integrację Indian z Hiszpanami i w efekcie powstanie nowego społeczeństwa. Autor przeciwstawia to podbojowi Indian w Ameryce Północnej przez protestanckich przybyszów, którzy w zasadzie dokonali ich eksterminacji, a nielicznych ocalałych umieścili w rezerwatach.
Doskonała książka - także pod względem edytorskim, wydana na kredowym papierze, z mnóstwem ilustracji, reprodukcji i autorskich zdjęć Janusza Rosikonia.
February 1, 2025
Did you ever find yourself wanting to just gush over a book? This is a marvelous work that is, at the same time, entertaining, educational, visually pleasing (in the many illustrations and photographs provided) and enlightening, and opens new vistas of perspective on history and theology.
I learned more about the history of Central America from this work than ever was taught in our American schools. It is also fascinating to see some ofhte comparisons made by the authors. For example, there is a comparison of the trajectories taken by the United States, largely founded by Protestants, and the development of Mexico and surrounding nations largely developed by Catholics. Slavery was not an issue in central America, although it played such a huge, almost predominating role in the U.S.
The current narratives paint all Europeans, and their descendants, as horrible imperialists bent simply on crushing native populations. When the Spaniards came to Mexico, however, they "conquered" the native population with a mathematically impossibly small band compared with the native population. But then one must examine who, exactly, was "conquered" and how. It was the murderous Aztecs, who reveled in human sacrifice, and was accomplished with the assistance of the oppressed nations around them.
It is also a tale of salvation and redemption. The mystical image of the Blessed Mother, embedded for all time in the tilma of St. Juan Diego is more than just a beautiful picture. It is a codes of faith and a catechism for those who wish to know better the Mother of God, and especially her Son, Jesus.
Without wishing to expose spoilers, as science improves, so does our knowledge and understanding of the mysteries contained within the tilma. Some of these mysteries were known six centuries ago, and some are only now being uncovered and explored.
As Jesus said, let those who have ears, hear.
I learned more about the history of Central America from this work than ever was taught in our American schools. It is also fascinating to see some ofhte comparisons made by the authors. For example, there is a comparison of the trajectories taken by the United States, largely founded by Protestants, and the development of Mexico and surrounding nations largely developed by Catholics. Slavery was not an issue in central America, although it played such a huge, almost predominating role in the U.S.
The current narratives paint all Europeans, and their descendants, as horrible imperialists bent simply on crushing native populations. When the Spaniards came to Mexico, however, they "conquered" the native population with a mathematically impossibly small band compared with the native population. But then one must examine who, exactly, was "conquered" and how. It was the murderous Aztecs, who reveled in human sacrifice, and was accomplished with the assistance of the oppressed nations around them.
It is also a tale of salvation and redemption. The mystical image of the Blessed Mother, embedded for all time in the tilma of St. Juan Diego is more than just a beautiful picture. It is a codes of faith and a catechism for those who wish to know better the Mother of God, and especially her Son, Jesus.
Without wishing to expose spoilers, as science improves, so does our knowledge and understanding of the mysteries contained within the tilma. Some of these mysteries were known six centuries ago, and some are only now being uncovered and explored.
As Jesus said, let those who have ears, hear.
January 19, 2025
I am a Catholic. This book needs a ton more citations.
I will give the authors credit that when I checked on some of the Spanish colonial people that they praised, the actions of the people did seem to agree with what the authors stated. I will not say that the history is completely skewed, but I will say that it is presented with enough bias to make me feel the need to double-check facts. The history was written in a circular way, instead of sticking to chronology--this may be partly due to English not being the authors' first language. This got exasperating. Maybe it's better to skip around in this book. Lots of amazing images.
I cannot figure out what they mean by the stars on the Virgin of Guadalupe's mantle corresponding to the stars above Tepeyac Hill in the early morning of December 12, 1531 -- "as seen from space." This statement makes no sense. The assertion about the stars and the assertion about microscopic images in Mary's eyes do not serve to bolster my faith.
I will give the authors credit that when I checked on some of the Spanish colonial people that they praised, the actions of the people did seem to agree with what the authors stated. I will not say that the history is completely skewed, but I will say that it is presented with enough bias to make me feel the need to double-check facts. The history was written in a circular way, instead of sticking to chronology--this may be partly due to English not being the authors' first language. This got exasperating. Maybe it's better to skip around in this book. Lots of amazing images.
I cannot figure out what they mean by the stars on the Virgin of Guadalupe's mantle corresponding to the stars above Tepeyac Hill in the early morning of December 12, 1531 -- "as seen from space." This statement makes no sense. The assertion about the stars and the assertion about microscopic images in Mary's eyes do not serve to bolster my faith.
November 13, 2020
Great background information about Our Lady of Guadalupe. Historical context helps the reader understand the significance of this event. Illustrations help tell the story.
April 14, 2025
A history of the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe and how that image interacted with Mexican history. The book ends with inexplicable details of the image itself and the fabric on which it appears.
July 10, 2017
This is an amazing & interesting book!
Growing up Catholic, I've always been very familiar with the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the story of how she appeared to a poor Indian named Juan Diego. I already knew a few things about the miraculous image on the tilma: like the fact that although the tilma itself is made of a material that disintegrates rapidly it is mysterious indestructible; how the image appealed to both the Indians and the Spanish for different but incredible reasons; and how the stars on Our Lady's mantle coincide perfectly with the constellation in the sky on the day she appeared.
But there was so much more that I didn't know! This book explains all the different ways that the image is an Aztec pictograph, and what it communicated to the Aztecs. It also talks about history: of the Aztecs, the Spanish conquest, Cortes, Christopher Columbus, the work of the Catholic missionaries, and the history of Mexico with its conflicts between secularists and Catholics.
And it talks a lot of science. The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe has been under constant research by scientists through-out the years who seem to discover more and more as technology advances. I was stunned by the mathematical, geographical, and musical data within the image.
Probably the most fascinating thing to me was the images reflected in Our Lady's eyes - 20+ ophthalmologist looked into the eyes of the image with an ophthalmoscope, and their findings were unbelievable. Every single one said it was exactly like looking into the eye of a living human being - something that should be impossible on a flat surface. When the findings were just too unbelievable, atheist researchers were pulled in to conduct their own experiments not tainted by any religious or spiritual bias, yet the findings were exactly the same.
There is a ton of information in this book, but it's presented in an attractive and easily-digestible format. Despite the depth of research and large span of information, it's a quick and engrossing read with heaps of beautiful pictures.
Growing up Catholic, I've always been very familiar with the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the story of how she appeared to a poor Indian named Juan Diego. I already knew a few things about the miraculous image on the tilma: like the fact that although the tilma itself is made of a material that disintegrates rapidly it is mysterious indestructible; how the image appealed to both the Indians and the Spanish for different but incredible reasons; and how the stars on Our Lady's mantle coincide perfectly with the constellation in the sky on the day she appeared.
But there was so much more that I didn't know! This book explains all the different ways that the image is an Aztec pictograph, and what it communicated to the Aztecs. It also talks about history: of the Aztecs, the Spanish conquest, Cortes, Christopher Columbus, the work of the Catholic missionaries, and the history of Mexico with its conflicts between secularists and Catholics.
And it talks a lot of science. The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe has been under constant research by scientists through-out the years who seem to discover more and more as technology advances. I was stunned by the mathematical, geographical, and musical data within the image.
Probably the most fascinating thing to me was the images reflected in Our Lady's eyes - 20+ ophthalmologist looked into the eyes of the image with an ophthalmoscope, and their findings were unbelievable. Every single one said it was exactly like looking into the eye of a living human being - something that should be impossible on a flat surface. When the findings were just too unbelievable, atheist researchers were pulled in to conduct their own experiments not tainted by any religious or spiritual bias, yet the findings were exactly the same.
There is a ton of information in this book, but it's presented in an attractive and easily-digestible format. Despite the depth of research and large span of information, it's a quick and engrossing read with heaps of beautiful pictures.
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