STRANGE LIGHT CLAIMED IN
GUADALUPE IMAGE The event is said to have occurred on April 24 -- the day legislators okayed termination of the unborn up to twelve weeks. However, the similarity to photos taken in 1999 by an American raises questions that require further investigation for authenticity and a check of dates. "At the end of the Mass, which was offered for the aborted children,
the assistant of the congregation was asking herself what the Most Holy
Virgin of Guadalupe was demanding of her," reported Father Luis Matos,
superior of La Communauté des Béatitudes.
"While many of the faithful were taking photographs of the [tilma] of Tepeyac, exposed and venerated in the Basilica and at the foot of which
the crowd of pilgrims filed past on a moving carpet, the image of the
Virgin began to erase itself, to give place to an intense light which
emanated from her abdomen, constituting a brilliant halo having the form
of an embryo. With a centering and an important enlargement it is possible
to appreciate the position of the light which truly comes from the stomach
of the Holy Virgin and is not a reflection, nor an artifact."
"An engineer, Luis Girault, who has studied the picture thus produced,
has confirmed the authenticity of the negative, and has been able to
specify that it had not been either modified nor altered, by
superimposition of another image for example," stated the priest. "He
discovered that the image (the picture produced) does not come from any
reflection, |