The mystery in the eyes of Our Lady of Guadalupe inexplicable for science

On the day of Saturday 9 December 1531, Juan Diego went early from his village to Santiago Tlatelolco. As he passed the Tepeyac hill he was struck by a harmonious song of birds. Intrigued, he climbs to the top and sees a shining white cloud surrounded by a rainbow.

At the height of amazement he hears a voice that calls him affectionately, using the indigenous language, the "nahuatl": "Juanito, Juan Dieguito!" And behold, he saw a beautiful Lady go towards him and say to him: "Listen, my son, my little one, Juanito, where are you going?" Juan Diego replies: "Lady and my little one, I must go to your home [temple] in México-Tlatilolco, to listen to the things of the Lord that our priests, delegates of Our Lord teach us". The Lady then says to him: Know and keep in mind you, the youngest of my children, that I am the ever Virgin Mary, Mother of the true God for whom we live, of the Creator who is everywhere, Lord of Heaven and of the Earth. You will have much merit and reward for the work and effort with which you will do what I recommend. See, this is my job, my youngest son, go and do everything you can ". The Holy Virgin asks Juan Diego to go to the Bishop of Mexico City, to communicate his desire that a small church be built on that hill, from where she would give help and protection to all Mexicans.

The 13 figures in the eyes of the Madonna of Guadalupe

They reveal a message from the Virgin Mary: before God, men and women of all races are equal.

The eyes of Our Lady of Guadalupe constitute a great enigma for science, as the studies of the engineer José Aste Tönsmann of the Guadalupani Study Center in Mexico City have pointed out.

History
Alfonso Marcué, official photographer of the ancient Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, discovered in 1929 what looked like the image of a bearded man reflected in the right eye of the Madonna. In 1951 the designer José Carlos Salinas Chávez discovered the same image while observing a photograph of the Madonna of Guadalupe with a magnifying glass. He also saw it reflected in his left eye, in the same place where a live eye would have projected.

Medical opinion and the secret of his eyes
In 1956 the Mexican doctor Javier Torroella Bueno prepared the first medical report on the eyes of the so-called Virgen Morena. The result: as in any living eye the Purkinje-Samson laws were fulfilled, that is, there is a triple reflection of the objects located before the eyes of the Madonna and the images are distorted by the curved shape of her corneas.

In the same year, the ophthalmologist Rafael Torija Lavoignet examined the eyes of the Holy Image and confirmed the existence in the two eyes of the Virgin of the figure described by the designer Salinas Chávez.

Start the study with digitization processes
Since 1979, the doctor in computational systems and a degree in Civil Engineering José Aste Tönsmann has discovered the mystery enclosed by the eyes of Guadeloupe. Through the process of digitizing computer images, he described the reflection of 13 characters in the eyes of Virgen Morena, based on Purkinje-Samson's laws.

The very small diameter of the corneas (7 and 8 millimeters) excludes the possibility of drawing the figures in the eyes, if one takes into account the raw material on which the image is immortalized.

The characters found in the pupils
The result of 20 years of careful study of the eyes of Our Lady of Guadalupe was the discovery of 13 tiny figures, says Dr. José Aste Tönsmann.
1.- An indigenous who observes
It appears full-length, sitting on the ground. The native's head is slightly raised and seems to be looking upwards, as a sign of attention and reverence. A sort of circle in the ear and sandals on the feet stand out.

2.- The elderly
After the indigenous one appreciates the face of an elderly, bald, with a prominent and straight nose, sunken eyes pointing downwards and a white beard. The traits coincide with those of a white man. His marked resemblance to Bishop Zumárraga, as it appears in the paintings of Miguel Cabrera of the eighteenth century, allows us to suppose that he is the same person.

3.- The young man
Next to the elderly there is a young man with traits that denote amazement. The position of the lips seems to speak to the alleged bishop. His proximity to him led to think that he is a translator, because the bishop did not speak the Náhuatl language. It is believed that it is Juan González, a young Spaniard born between 1500 and 1510.

4.-Juan Diego
The face of a mature man is highlighted, with indigenous features, sparse beard, aquiline nose and parted lips. It has a hat in the shape of a foil, commonly used among the natives who at the time were engaged in agricultural work.

The most interesting aspect of this figure is the cloak that is tied around the neck, and the fact that it extends the right arm and shows the cloak in the direction in which the elderly person is. The hypothesis of the researcher is that this image corresponds to the visionary Juan Diego.

5.- A black race woman
Behind the alleged Juan Diego appears a woman with piercing eyes who looks with amazement. Only the torso and the face can be seen. She has a dark complexion, a flattened nose and large lips, traits that correspond to those of a black woman.

Father Mariano Cuevas, in his book Historia de la Iglesia en México, indicates that Bishop Zumárraga had granted freedom in his will to the black slave who had served him in Mexico.

6.- The bearded man
On the far right of both corneas appears a bearded man with European traits that has not been able to identify. It shows a contemplative attitude, the face expresses interest and perplexity; he keeps his gaze towards the place where the native explains his cloak.

A mystery in the mystery (composed of figures 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13)
At the center of both eyes appears what has been termed the "indigenous family group". The images are of different sizes than the others, but these people have the same dimensions among themselves and make up a different scene.

(7) A young woman with very fine features who seems to be looking down. He has a kind of headdress on his hair: braids or hair braided with flowers. On his back stands the head of a child in a cloak (8).

At a lower level and to the right of the young mother there is a man with a hat (9), and between the two there is a couple of children (male and female, 10 and 11). another couple of figures, this time a mature man and woman (12 and 13), stands behind the young woman.

The mature man (13) is the only figure that the researcher has not been able to find in both eyes of the Virgin, being present only in the right eye.

Conclusion
On December 9, 1531, the Virgin Mary asked the native Juan Diego to build a temple on the Tepeyac hill to make God known "and to accomplish what my compassionate merciful gaze desires (...)", Nican Mopohua n. 33.

According to the author, these 13 figures together reveal a message of the Virgin Mary addressed to humanity: in front of God, men and women of all races are equal.

Those of the family group (figures 7 to 13) in both eyes of the Virgin of Guadalupe, according to Dr. Aste, are the most important figures among those reflected in her corneas, because they are located in her pupils, which means that Maria Guadalupe has the family at the center of his compassionate gaze. It could be an invitation to seek family unity, to draw closer to God in the family, especially now that the latter has been so devalued by modern society.