The Miraculous Icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe
According to many scientists who have inspected the image,
it seems that in her eyes, in both of them and in the precise location as
reflected by a live human eye, could be seen many figures that have been
extensively analyzed and seem to correspond to the shape and size of human
figures located in front of the image.
In 1929, Alfonso Marcue, who was the official photographer
of the old Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, found what seemed to him to be
a clear image of a bearded man reflected in the right eye of the Virgin.
Initially he did not believe what was before his eyes. How could it be? A
bearded man inside of the eyes of the Virgin?
After many inspections of many
of his black and white photographs he had no doubts and decided to inform the
authorities of the Basilica. He was told that time to keep complete silence
about the discovery, which he did.
More than 20 years later, on May 29, 1951, Jose Carlos
Salinas Chavez, examining a good photograph of the face, rediscovers the image
of what clearly appears to be a bearded man reflected in the right eye of the
Virgin, and locates it on the left eye too.
Since then, many
people had the opportunity to inspect closely the eyes of the Virgin on the
tilma, including more than 20 physicians, ophthalmologists.
The first one, on March 27, 1956, was Dr. Javier Torroella
Bueno, MDS, a prestigious ophthalmologist. In what is the first report on the
eyes of the image issued by a physician, he certifies what seems to be the
presence of the triple reflection (Samson-Purkinje effect) characteristic of
all live human eyes and states that the resulting images are located exactly
where they are supossed to be according to such effect, and also that the
distortion of the images agree with the curvature of the cornea.
The same year another ophthalmologist, Dr. Rafael Torrija
Lavoignet, examined the eyes of the image with an ophthalmoscope in great
detail. He observed the apparent human figure in the corneas of both eyes, with
the location and distortion of a normal human eye and specially noted a unique
appearance of the eyes: they look strangely "alive" when examined.
Many other examinations by ophthalmologists have been done
of the eyes of the image on the tilma after these first ones. With more or less
details all agree with the conclusions of the ones mentioned above.
A new and interesting kind of analysis of the eyes started
in 1979, when Dr. Jose Aste Tonsmann, Ph D, graduated from Cornell University,
while working in IBM scanned at very high resolutions a very good photograph,
taken from the original, of the face on the tilma. After filtering and
processing the digitized images of the eyes to eliminate "noise" and
enhance them, he reports he made some astonishing discoveries: not only the
"human bust" was clearly present in both eyes, but another human
figures were seen as reflected in the eyes too.
Dr. Aste Tonsmann published his last studies on the eyes on
the tilma in the book "El Secreto de sus Ojos", with complete details
and photographs of his work . Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of
the studies is his conclusion that Our Lady of Guadalupe not only left us her
miraculous image as proof of her apparition but some important messages too.
These messages were hidden in the eyes on the image until our times, when new
technologies would allow them to be discovered, when they are most necessary.
That would be the case with the image of a family in the
center of the Virgin's eye, in times when families are under serious attack in
our modern world. The image of various human figures that seem to constitute a
family, including various children and a baby carried in the woman's back as
used in the 16th century, appears in the center of the pupil, as shown in this
great image of the right eye highlighting the family, generously provided by
Dr. Tonsmann.
See a video on the eyes images, with Dr. Aste Tonsmann.
Other Facts of this Miraculous Image
Kodak indicates the Tilma is like a photo rather than a
painting.
The Tilma’s temperature is 98.6 degrees normal human body temperature.
The image colors are not from animal, plant, or mineral pigments.
The Tilma stars match the 1531 winter solstice stars in the sky.
The Tilma’s temperature is 98.6 degrees normal human body temperature.
The image colors are not from animal, plant, or mineral pigments.
The Tilma stars match the 1531 winter solstice stars in the sky.
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Juan Diego
Part 2
Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd3G1S_24NM&feature=related
Miracles -- Our Lady of Guadalupe when filming an Emmy Award winning film of another telling of the Story of Guadalupe... Wow!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZvPIz0COdk&feature=related
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