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Today's date:
Wednesday August 27, 2008 |
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Our Lady of Guadalupe - Patroness of the Americas
CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS RELATED TO THE MIRACLE
YEAR EVENT
1474 - An Indian named Quauhtlatoatzin
was born in Cuautitlan.
1476 - Juan de Zumarraga was born in Spain.
1492 - Christopher Columbus landed on an island in the Americas and named it San
Salvador.
1514 - The first Marian Shrine in the New World was established in the city of
Higuey, first to be built on American soil.
1519 - Hernan Cortez landed in Mexico.
1521 - The capital city of the Aztecs falls under Cortez.
1524 - The first 12 Franciscans arrive in Mexico City.
1525 - The Indian Quauhtlatoatzin is baptized by a Franciscan priest. He received
the Christian name of Juan Diego.
1528 - Friar Juan de Zumarraga arrives in the New World.
1529 - Juan Diego’s wife, Maria, became sick and died.
1531 - Year of the apparitions to Juan Diego
1533 - The first sanctuary was erected.
1541 - Franciscan priest and early historian of New Spain“Motolinia”
writes that some nine million Aztecs had become Christians.
1548 - Death of Juan Diego.
1555 - In the Provincial Counsel, the second archbishop of Mexico, Alonso de Montúfar,
formulated canons that indirectly approved the apparitions.
1556 - Archbishop Montúfar began the erection of the second church.
1560 - A document known as the Valeriano Relation is written by an Indian named
Antonio Valeriano. Also known as the Nican Mopohua.
1564 - An image was carried on the first formal expedition to the Philippine Islands.
1567 - The new church ordered by Archbishop Montufar is completed.
1570 - Archbishop Montufar sent to King Philip II of Spain an oil painted copy
of the image of Guadalupe.
1571 - Admiral Doria carried a copy of the image aboard ship during the battle
of Lepanto and imputed to the Virgin of Guadalupe the victory over the Ottoman
Empire forces.
1573 - The historian Juan de Tovar, who transcribed the story from a still earlier
source, probably Juan Gonzalez, Bishop’s Zumarraga’s translator, wrote
the “Primitive Relation”. (Discovered in the Mexican national Library
Archives)
1647 - The image is covered with glass for the first time.
1648 - The priest Miguel Sanchez published in Mexico City, in Spanish, a work
entitled “Image of the Virgin Mary, Guadalupan Mother of God”.
1649 - Luis Lasso de la Vega published the “Huey - Tlanahuicoltica”,
telling the story in Nahuatl. It refers to earlier Nahuatl sources.
1666 - A formal inquiry and investigation was conducted by the Church from February
18 to March 22 in order to give authority to the tradition.
1695 - The first stone of the new sanctuary was laid. The sanctuary was solemnly
dedicated in 1709.
1723 - Another formal investigation ordered by Archbishop Lanziego y Eguilaz.
1737 - The Most Holy Mary of Guadalupe was chosen as the patroness of the city
of Mexico.
1746 - The patronage of Our Lady of Guadalupe was accepted for all of New Spain,
which then embraced the regions from northern California to El Salvador.
1746 - The knight Boturini Benaducci promoted the solemn and official coronation
of the image.
1754 - Benedict XIV approved the patronage of New Spain and granted a Mass and
Office proper to the celebration of the feast on December 12.
1756 - Famous painter Miguel Cabrera publishes his extensive study of the Image
in the book “American Marvel”.
1757 - The Virgin of Guadalupe was declared patroness of the citizens of Ciudad
Ponce in Puerto Rico.
1767 - The religious of the Society of Jesus are expelled from the Spanish dominions,
and the image is carried to various parts of the world.
1895 - The coronation of the image, with pontifical authority and the attendance
of a great part of the episcopate of the Americas.
1910 - Pius X declared the Virgin of Guadalupe Patroness of Latin America.
1911 - A church was built on the site of Juan Bernardino’s home.
1921 - A bomb placed beneath the image exploded, causing great damage, but nothing
happened to the tilma.
1924 - A very important 16th century source documenting the miracle is found in
Peru by anthropologist M. Saville. It is a pictorial calendar known as the Codex
Saville and shows the image of our Lady located in the position representing the
year 1531.
1928 - A coronation of the image was made in Santa Fe, Argentina.
1929 - First documented note of an apparent reflected image of a man’s head
in the right eye of the Virgin, by photographer Alfonso Marcue.
1935 - Pius XI extended the patronage of the Virgin of Guadalupe to the Philippines.
1941 - The Archbishop of Mexico City, Luis Maria Martinez, gives a piece of the
Tilma of Tepeyac to Archbishop John Cantwell of Los Angeles.
1945 - Pius XII stated that the Virgin of Guadalupe was the “Queen of Mexico
and Empress of the Americas” and brushes that were not of this world”
had painted that she.
1946 - Pope Pius XII declared her to be the Patroness of the Americas.
1951 - Examination of the image by Carlos Salinas. Apparent reflection of a man’s
head in the right eye of the Virgin observed.
1956 - Dr. Torroela - Bueno, an ophthalmologist, examined the eyes of the Virgin
on the tilma.
1958 - Dr. Rafael Torija - Lavoignet published his study of the Purkinje - Sanson
effect as exhibited in the Guadalupan image.
1961 - Pope John XXIII prayed to her as Mother of the Americas. He addressed her
as Mother and Teacher of the Faith to the peoples of the Americas.
1962 - Dr. Charles Wahlig, O.D. announces the discovery of two images apparently
reflected in the eyes of the Virgin when studying a photograph enlarged twenty
five times.
1966 - Pope Paul VI sent a Golden Rose to the Basilica.
1975 - Glass was removed so another ophthalmologist, Dr. Enrique Grave, could
examine the image.
1976 - Dedication of the new Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, located four miles
from central Mexico City.
1979 - Dr. Philip Callahan takes 40 frames of infrared photographs of the image.
Later concluded that the original image is unexplainable as a human work.
Pope John Paul II called her the “Star of Evangelization”, knelt before
her image, invoked her motherly assistance and called upon her as Mother of the
Americas.
Dr. Jose Aste - Tonsmann announces the finding of at least four human figures
apparently reflected in both eyes of the Virgin. Dr. Tosmann used sophisticated
image processing techniques with digitized photographs of both eyes.
1988 - The liturgical celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe on December 12 was
raised to the status of a feast in all dioceses in the United States.
1990 - Juan Diego was declared Blessed by Pope John Paul II at the Vatican.
Pope John Paul II returns to the Basilica in Mexico City to perform the beatification
ceremony of Juan Diego.
1992 - Pope John Paul II dedicated a chapel in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe
in St. Peter’s Basilica.
2003 - Roger Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles authorized the loan of the “Tilma
of Tepeyac” relic to the Apostolate for Holy Relics.
The American Bishops invite the Apostolate for Holy Relics to tour the United
States with the “Tilma of Tepeyac Tour”.
December 8, 2003 - The relic is enshrined in the Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral
in Los Angeles, Ca. for permanent public veneration.
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