Antique Immaculate Heart Our Lady of Guadalupe Mexico Shrine Pilgrimage Medal

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Antique Immaculate Heart Our Lady of Guadalupe Mexico Shrine Pilgrimage Medal :
$34.99

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This original cast antique 18th century medal is apilgrimage medal from the Basilica of Our lady of Guadalupe in Mexico. Its sizeis 1.25 inches long, and it weighs 6 grams. It is one of a handful of medals, all from the private estate collection of Bertha, thefounder of Church-Woman Antique.

The story of the 1531 Guadalupe apparition of the VirginMother Mary is one of the most fascinating in all of Catholic lore. Accordingto accounts, a poor Indian by the name of Juan Diego came across a vision ofwhat he described as a \'lady from heaven\' while on a mountainside in NorthwestMexico City. According to Diego, this woman instructed him to create a templeat the site of this vision. In addition, she somehow imprinted her likenessinto his cactus-cloth. Although such cloth normally deteriorates rapidly overtime, Diego\'s cloth survives to this day, more than 470 years after theapparition, in defiance of scientific rationale. Today, the shrine of Our Ladyof Guadalupe is one of the most important Catholic churches in the Westernhemisphere. All told, more than 10 million people visit the Basilica of OurLady of Guadalupe every year. Pope John Paul II, for his part, made pilgrimagesto this Mexican sanctuary four times during his tenure as the leader of theCatholic Church. As with the so-called Miraculous Medal, which stirredreligious feeling in 19th century France, the Our Lady of Guadalupe medal hashelped to focus Catholic passions in America.

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