Inenekazi lethu laseGuadalupe kunye nommangaliso weTilma
La UMama wethu waseGuadalupe ungomnye wabantu benkolo abahlonelwayo baseMexico kunye nophawu olubalulekileyo lwabantu baseMexico. Lo mfanekiso ubonisa ukuntsonkotha kwenkcubeko yelizwe kunye nokwahluka, ukudibanisa ilifa lemveli kunye nokomoya wamaKatolika, yiyo loo nto iye yaba ngumntu obaluleke kangaka kubomi kunye nokholo lwabantu baseMexico.
Ibali layo lenzeka ngowe-1531, xa iNtombi Enyulu enguMariya yabonakala kumlimi womthonyama ogama linguMariya. Juan Diego. Intombi enyulu yamcela ukuba akhe ingcwele kwindawo yembonakalo, kufutshane nenduli yaseTepeyac, emantla eMexico City.
Ngokwesithethe, uJuan Diego wayehamba ecaleni kwentaba Tepeyac xa ebona uMadonna evela. Wamcela ukuba akhe enye Ingcwele kuloo ndawo kunye nokudlulisa umyalezo wakhe kuBhishophu omkhulu we SaseMexico City. Xa uJuan Diego waya kudibana nobhishophu omkhulu, wavula i-tilma yakhe ukubonisa eyakhe wavuka ukuba iNenekazi lethu lenze lakhula ngokungummangaliso phakathi ebusika. Kodwa eyona nto imangalisayo yile yayibhalwe kwi-tilma ngokwayo: iumfanekiso weNtombi Enyulu uMariya.
I-Tilma ibuyisela uhambo lwe-Holy Shroud
I-Tilma ibuyisela indlela efanayo ne-Holy Shroud, enyanisweni kwi 1791, abanye abasebenzi ngelixa becoca isakhelo apho i-tilma yayivalekile, bagalela ngempazamoi-nitric acid. Kodwa akukho nto, umfanekiso wahlala ngokungekho. Kujongwe ngcono ke ngoko, kwaqatshelwa ukuba akukho kwanaba basemfanekisweni uthuli okanye izinambuzane ezifileyonangona ixesha lihamba. Kwi 1936, iBhaso leNobel kwiKhemistry, URichard Kuln, wahlolisisa imisonto emibini yetilma, enye obomvu kunye nomnye otyheli kwaye akufunyanwanga nedayi yalo naluphi na uhlobo emiculweni.
in 1929 emva koko, umfoti Alfonso Gonzales, eqwalasele iliso lasekunene lalo mfanekiso, waphawula ukuba umfanekiso wemizobo yabantu unokubonwa kumfundi. Akukho mzobi wayenokuze aprinte imifanekiso enjalo phakathi kwabafundi bomzobo. Kuloo mehlo kwakubhalwe abantu ababekho ngelo xesha clairvoyant wavula ingubo egcwele iirozi apho uMfanekiso kaNdikhoyo wenziwa Madonna.