Title: "San Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin - The Eagle that Talks." Our Lady of Guadalupe is the title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a series of five Marian apparitions in December 1531 and a venerated image on a cloak enshrined within the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. San Juan Diego, a native of Mexico and the first Catholic indigenous saint from the Americas, was granted four apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 1531 on the hill of Tepeyac. The Basilica at the foot of Tepeyac, has the cloak of San Juan Diego on which an image of the Virgin was impressed, and which carried Castilian roses, each event a miraculous pledge of the authenticity of the apparitions. (The "Guadalupe Event"). St. John Paul II referred to the Guadalupe Event as "a model of evangelization perfectly inculturated." The veneration of Our Lady of Guadalupe is worldwide.
San Juan Diego is the patron saint of indigenous peoples. "We ask Our Lady, who appeared to you as your Mother and Mother of all in our land, to wrap her mantle of protection around all migrant people. We beg for her love, compassion, help and protection on all immigrants who today experience great sufferings, sorrows, necessities and misfortunes." -Prayer to San Juan Diego
Artist: Lynn Garlick, Taos, New Mexico. The artist reserves all copyrights.
Media: High quality folk art print decoupaged onto pine board.
Dimensions: 12 1/4" x 5 1/2" x 3/4"
Condition: New.
Speaking of her work, Lynn Garlick says, "The diverse cultures and the landscape of this part of the country deeply and yet unintentionally influenced me both artistically and spiritually. I am nourished by Northern New Mexico's rugged wildness and rawness. The profound devotion found in the different traditions and faiths here are unusual and inspiring."
Moved by the sacred art of the retablos (paintings) and the santeros (saint makers) who made them, Lynn started creating them herself. Lynn hand carves and paints her original designs on the traditionally used Ponderosa pine planks. Then she decoupages high quality prints of her originals onto pine boards in an old school technique used for the Italian altar screens of medieval Europe.
The saints and angels are ready to hang or rest about your home. On the back of each retablo is an inspiring story about the angel or saint. Many of the descriptions also include a prayer. "The saints, angels and prayers have changed and blessed my life. My hope is that they touch and bless others as well."