Through the eyes of a Queen:
Painted by angels, this ongoing miracle has
no pigment on the cactus fibers, yet appears as a colored image.
The stars on Mary's cape accurately portray the constellations at
the time this miracle began. Her eyes even reveal the reflected
image of what she saw when Juan Diego openned his tilma to give
the Bishop the miraculous Castillian Roses as a gift from Our Lady.
"Bearded man" image in the right eye.
According to many scientists who have inspected the image we can
see reflected in her eyes, in both of them and in the precise location
as reflected by a live human eye , many figures that have been extensively
analyzed and seem to correspond to the shape and size of human figures
located in front of the image.
In 1929, Alfonso Marcue, who was the official photographer of the
old Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, found what seemed to be
a clear image of a bearded man reflected in the right eye of the
Virgin. Initially he did not believe what was before his eyes. How
could it be? A bearded man inside of the eyes of the Virgin? After
many inspections of many of his black and white photographs he had
no doubts and decided to inform the authorities of the Basilica.
He was told that time to keep complete silence about the discovery,
which he did.
More than 20 years later, on May 29, 1951, Jose Carlos Salinas
Chavez, examining a good photograph of the face, rediscovers the
image of what clearly appears to be a bearded man reflected in the
right eye of the Virgin, and locates it on the left eye too.
"Bearded man"
Since then, many people had the opportunity to inspect closely
the eyes of the Virgin on the tilma, including more than 20 physicians,
ophthalmologists.
The first one, on March 27, 1956, was Dr. Javier Torroella Bueno,
MDS, a prestigious ophthalmologist. In what is the first report
on the eyes of the image issued by a physician, he certifies the
presence of the triple reflection (Samson-Purkinje effect) characteristic
of all live human eyes and states that the resulting images are
located exactly where they are supossed to be according to such
effect, and also that the distortion of the images agree with the
curvature of the cornea.
The same year another ophthalmologist, Dr. Rafael Torrija Lavoignet,
examined the eyes of the image with an ophthalmoscope in great detail.
He observed the apparent human figure in the corneas of both eyes,
with the location and distortion of a normal human eye and specially
noted a unique appearance of the eyes: they look strangely "alive"
when examined.
Many other examinations by ophthalmologists have been done of the
eyes of the image on the tilma after these first ones. With more
or less details all agree with the conclusions of the ones mentioned
above.
Images in the right eye of the Virgin on the tilma
According to Dr. Tonsmann, from left to right we can see "the
Indian", "bishop Zumarraga", the "translator",
"Juan Diego showing the tilma" and below "the family".
But a new and fascinating kind of analysis of the eyes started
in 1979, when Dr. Jose Aste Tonsmann, Ph D, graduated from Cornell
University, while working in IBM scanned at very high resolutions
a very good photograph, taken from the original, of the face on
the tilma. After filtering and processing the digitized images of
the eyes to eliminate "noise" and enhance them, he made
some astonishing discoveries: not only the "human bust"
was clearly present in both eyes, but another human figures were
seen as reflected in the eyes too!
Dr. Aste Tonsmann published his last studies on the eyes on the
tilma in the book "El Secreto de sus Ojos", with complete
details and photographs of his work . Perhaps one of the most fascinating
aspects of the studies is his conclusion that Our Lady of Guadalupe
not only left us her miraculous image as proof of her apparition
but some important messages too. These messages were hidden in the
eyes on the image until our times, when new technologies would allow
them to be discovered, when they are most necessary.
The family
That would be the case with the image of a family in the center
of the Virgin's eye, in times when families are under serious attack
in our modern world. The image of various human figures that seem
to constitute a family, including various children and a baby carried
in the woman's back as used in the 16th century, appears in the
center of the pupil, as shown in this great image of the right eye
highlighting the family, generously provided by Dr. Tonsmann.
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