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Thursday  Feb 23, 2006

The Virgin of Guadalupe

An iconic image of Mexican culture, the colorful Virgin of Guadalupe is a popular choice for tattoos. The icon represents more than a religious reference, however. The Virgin is a quintessentially Mexican story that symbolizes both Mexican nationalism, and faith in miracles.

According to the legend, the Virgin of Guadalupe was the Virgin Mary who appeared to a Catholic man named Juan Diego, almost five hundred years ago. At that time, few of the Aztec people in the region were Catholic. The Virgin requested that Juan tell the bishop to build a church, immediately on the site where she appeared. The bishop balked, doubting the veracity of the miracle, and Mary appeared again to Juan. This time, she gave him a beautiful bunch of roses. Juan put the roses in his poncho to show the bishop, but when he opened the poncho up there were no roses! In their place was an image of the Virgin of Guadeloupe, imprinted on the interior of his poncho. The church and poncho exist to this day, in Mexico City where the miracle occurred.

Many other miraculous imprints of the Virgin of Guadalupe have since been discovered, and the use of the image as a tattoo is highly significant

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