Did the Book of Revelation[1] prophesize the U.S. Constitution and Guadalupe?
The language of apocalyptic writing is richly symbolic, and the importance of the visions which are described is never in their immediate literal meaning. According to St. Johns Gospel, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. Some 70 or so years after the Incarnation, St. John on the Roman prison island of Patmos wrote the Apocalypse. In Revelations 12:1-9, he mentions: a great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. Miguel Sanchez, in his Imagen de La Virgen Mara Madre de Dios de Guadalupe (1648), used that description as a pencil sketch for his description of the image of Guadalupe. Without rancor or bias, he honored the Spanish by the Conquest, the Indigenous by the location Tepayac, and the Church by the biblical references. Nationalism was added by Miguel Hidalgo and others. The Guadalupe tradition is embedded in the history of the United States conquest o
The language of apocalyptic writing is richly symbolic, and the importance of the visions which are described is never in their immediate literal meaning. According to St. Johns Gospel, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. Some 70 or so years after the Incarnation, St. John on the Roman prison island of Patmos wrote the Apocalypse. In Revelations 12:1-9, he mentions: a great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. Miguel Sanchez, in his Imagen de La Virgen Mara Madre de Dios de Guadalupe (1648), used that description as a pencil sketch for his description of the image of Guadalupe. Without rancor or bias, he honored the Spanish by the Conquest, the Indigenous by the location Tepayac, and the Church by the biblical references. Nationalism was added by Miguel Hidalgo and others. The Guadalupe tradition is embedded in the history of the United States conquest o
