Did you
notice it is 12/12/12? Beside the point. But then again, how could’ve Juan
Diego found flowers in bloom atop a typically barren hilltop, and what’s more,
flowers not native to his homeland? Such is the partial story of the Virgin
Mary appearing on the Hill of Tepeyac, Mexico. Mary in her Mexican guise went
through a title change in 1990s form Patroness
of the Philippines to Patroness of
the Americas, Empress of Latin America, and Protectress of Unborn Children. Ah, the
Popes and their crazy antics! The title of the Queen of Mexico seems to have stayed with her through it all. And
rightly so. She is quite something: wearing blue-green mantel with stars over an
exquisite golden dress tied high with a belt, she hovers above on a crescent
moon supported by a cherub with sunrays emanating all around her. Let’s not
forget that she was also identified as the Woman of the Apocalypse, by one Miguel
Sánchez, a Novohispanic priest, writer and theologian. She covers a lot of
ground being divinely dressed in Aztec symbolism, pregnant under that high sash
and a figure in the Book of Revelations, the final book of the New Testament.
She is Mexico. Hail The Queen!
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