The Indians would pick this up intuitively, because they drew their gods starring directly ahead with open eyes. This is a sign of her humility as she acknowledges there is someone greater than she. Our Lady shows them she is a queen, but gives them another sign by the way she looks with her eyes focused downward. Not until later did the western Church move the date to Dec. In the East, her Immaculate Conception was celebrated on Dec. Christian iconography uses the crescent moon under the Our LadyвЂ™s feet to symbolize her perpetual virginity or sometimes to refer to her Immaculate Conception, or Assumption. Our Lady also appears as the woman beginning Revelation 12:1 - вЂњa woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet.вЂќ ThereвЂ™s a Bible lesson they will later hear and learn. John Paul II calls this вЂњan impressive example of a perfectly inculturated evangelization.вЂќ Grzegorz Gorny and Janusz Rosikon present the gruesome facts in Guadalupe Mysteries.Д«ut Our Lady of Guadalupe changed all that once they вЂњreadвЂќ the message she left on Juan DiegoвЂ™s tilma. A leading authority on the history set the figure of human sacrifices in 15th-century central Mexico at 250,000 a year. Horrendous human sacrifices to their demon gods ran into the tens of thousands yearly. The Aztecs had indeed been mired in diabolical doings. Able to easily read the abundance of signs and symbols on Our LadyвЂ™s image which used Aztec pictogram language, they quickly gave up worshipping the sun and the moon and other pagan entities. When Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego in 1531 and left her image on his tilma, her tilma became an indelible, eloquent catechism in art that evangelized the pagan Aztecs and Indians so that more than 9 million converted to Christianity in eight years. Our Lady of Guadalupe brought real hope and evangelization to the Aztecs and other tribes. WeвЂ™ve seen things being promoted that appear contrary to the faith.

He is our radiant one