Blinded By the Light - The Occult of Roman Catholicism

The move to make Juan Diego a saint, like Constantineís so-called devotion to
the Christian God, seems to be political in nature.

ìJuan Diego's canonization comes at a time when the

Catholic Church in Mexico is seeing increasing numbers of

Indians join evangelical Protestant congregations.î 39

Adding fuel to the fire of the controversy surrounding the image of the Virgin of
Guadalupe is a book by Catholic priest Father Stafford Poole. His book, entitled
ìOur Lady of Guadalupe - The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National
Symbol 1531-1797" reveals many interesting things about the Virgin of
Guadalupe apparition. As documented on the web page ìGuadalupe: from the
River of the Wolvesî some of the revelations Stafford Poole recorded are:

1) That Bishop Zumarraga, the very bishop who Juan Diego

allegedly went to with the story, never mentioned anything about

the Virgin of Guadalupe in his personal memoirs and did not leave

any sort of donation in the Virgin's name before his death. This

event, which would have left the most indelible impression

onÖZumarraga, appears to have been totally ignored by him in his

writings.

2) [Other] men who were present at the time this alleged apparition

took place also made no reference to the Virgin of Guadalupe in

their own writings. Not least of which was one of the ìTwelve

Apostlesî of New Spain Toribio de Motolinia who became famous as

a missionary and as a historian of the Indies. He was there before,

during and after the alleged apparition took place in 1531. The

Franciscan historian Francis Borgia Steck, who translated and

edited an English edition of Motolinia's ìHistoriaî wrote:

ìNowhere, neither in his History nor his [memoirs], does

Motolinia even mention, much less recount, the apparitions of

the Blessed Virgin to the Indian Juan Diego. This seems

strange, especially in view of the fact that in the course of his

narrative he repeatedly had occasion at least to mention or

allude to the apparitions.î

3) That during an investigation in 1570 related to the Guadalupe

devotion and alleged miraculous painting, four witnesses testified

that the image of Guadalupe which was supposedly, miraculously

painted by the Virgin on Juan Diego's tilma was actually painted

by an Indian who a highly respected holy man identified as

Marcos. This ìMarcosî is believed to have been Marcos de Aquino

who was reputed to have been the Michelangelo of his time among

the Indians.