...continued from The Empress of the USA : Part V
La Virgen
The full title of Our Lady of Guadalupe is, La Virgen Maria Santísima, Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Patrona de México y Emperatriz de las Américas (The Most Holy Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Queen of Mexico and Empress of the Americas)
Rather than delve into the long and tortuous history of conflicts between "Protestant" and "Catholic" inhabitants and their descendants, suffice to say that the Catholic Church has never abandoned its dream to "catholicize" both North and South America - from pole to pole.
And so we will fast forward...
After centuries-long campaigns by a succession of Vatican agents and fifth-columnists to manipulate, destablize, isolate and undermine a largely "Protestant" USA,* the realization of the great dream sits perched upon the cusp of reality mainly due to entirely unrecognized but parallel activities.
The US-based Knights of Columbus, the world's largest order of lay Catholics, fired the latest salvo by recently hosting an 'International Marian Congress on Our Lady of Guadalupe' held in Phoenix, Arizona.From the Report posted on the Guadalupe Festival website
Joyful Festival Concludes Week of Guadalupe Events
"Our Lady of Gudalupe and the tilma [cloak] of St. Juan Diego took center stage, literally, before thousands of faithful ones at the Guadalupe Festival on August 8 [2009]. An afternoon of song, dance, prayer, joyful celebrations and witness talks, the festival was held at the Jobing.com Arena, just outside of Phoenix, which was filled with nearly 20,000 attendees of all ages and many ethnic backgrounds.
"The festival concluded a week of events sponsored by the Knights of Columbus in Phoenix, starting with the Order’s 127th Supreme Convention and continuing with a three-day Marian Congress on Our Lady of Guadalupe.
"The highlight of the festival was a procession with the tilma relic, a small portion that was cut from Juan Diego’s tilma, and is on permanent display at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. It was loaned to the festival by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The relic was encased in a reliquary and draped by a chain upon a 17th century statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe that was placed on the arena’s center stage.
"The festival concluded with the praying of an international rosary, with prayers read in many languages, and meditations on the mysteries given by prominent Catholics from a number of countries.
"...Supreme Knight Carl Anderson gave the closing address, saying that the Knights of Columbus would continue to seek to bring all the people of America – North South and Central – in unity under the mantle of Our Lady of Guadalupe, to help build a culture of life and a civilization of love."
Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knight of Columbus
to be continued...
* See for example Honest Abe and the Vatican Parts I and II
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