February 29, 2024
OuR LaDY oF GuaDaLuPe" TiN aND GLaSS NiCHe
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Beautiful and unique tin and glass niche. Hand made and painted with an antique look by Silva, an artist from the State of Guanajuato. This niche contains a paper image of "ou R LaDY oF GuaDaLuPe " . This one of a kind tin niche is 11 1/2" tall x 8 3/4" wide. GReaT FoR CoLLeCToRS!!! "ouR LaDY oF GuaDaLuPe" The Blessed Virgin Mary, by her title, Our Lady of Guadalupe, is the Patroness of Mexico and the Americas. On December 9, 1531, Our Lady appeared to Saint Juan Diego, an Indian Christian, whom she sent to the bishop with the request to build a Church in her honor on the hill w she appeared. The bishop asked Juan Diego for a sign to prove that the Virgin had appeared to him. Our Lady appeared to Juan Diego again on December 12 and promised that his uncle would be healed. She directed Juan Diego to gather a bouquet of roses that miraculously appeared on a bush nearby (roses do not bloom at this time of the year) to present to the bishop. Juan Diego gatd the roses in his tilma (cloak). When he opened his tilma before the bishop, the roses felt to the floor, and the bishop was amazed to see the miraculous image of the Mother of God imprinted on the cloak. The image persuaded the bishop to believe what Juan Diego had told him, and the Church was built. This image, which almost immediately inspired the conversion to Christianity of
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