Our Lady of Guadalupe

Our Lady of Guadalupe : Ceramic Mosaic Mexico’s most popular religious and cultural icon, Our Lady of Guadalupe, which will be opened today in Taipei as part of celebrations to commemorate the appearance of the Virgin Mary said to the peasants nearly five centuries ago, according to Taipei-based business services and the Mexican Cultural Office documents.

“The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was donated by the Ibero-American community in Taiwan to observe the event the Catholic,” the office said.

Especially the Mass is scheduled to be held today at the Church of St. Christopher is located in Taipei and Manila Little on Zhongshan North Road, as well as a ceremony for the opening of St. Damian Cross and a mosaic of “Our Lady of Guadalupe,” which has already been set on the sidewalk outside the church.

Mosaic made of Talavera tiles from Puebla, Mexico City, while the Cross is made of limestone from Mexico in Guanajuato State.

Monsignor Paul Russell, and the Vatican’s charge d’affaires in Taiwan, and the clergy of the United States, the Philippines, and Spain, as well as local communities in Latin America and the communities of the Philippines, are expected to attend the ceremony.

According to the traditional account, on December 12, 1531, the Virgin Mary appeared miraculously to farmers in the Native American Tepeyac, a hill northwest of downtown Mexico City.

Identified themselves as the true Mother of God, ordered the seer, Juan Diego, the bishop build a temple at the site, leaving the image itself miraculously imprinted on his tilma, a cactus cloth of poor quality, which should have deteriorated in 20 years but shows no sign of decay until today. Diego was canonized by Pope John Paul II, July 31, 2002.

Pope Pius XII declared the Virgin of Guadalupe “Queen of Mexico and Empress of the Americas” in 1945, and a “sponsor of the Americas” in 1946. Pope John XXIII invoked as “Mother of the Americas” in 1961, referring to her mother and teacher of religion for all the American population.