The Miracle of Monterrey

Both mother and child are topped with bejeweled golden crowns and their facial features are very soft and northern European. In fact, the Baby Jesus of this image, with his chubby cheeks and mid-length curly blond hair, looks very similar to the American child actress Shirley Temple. This depiction of the Virgin has been historically venerated and called upon to ward off non-Christians who would cause harm, specifically Muslim invaders of Europe, and to protect against evil forces that would harm the Church or true Christian believers.

This Marian devotion was particularly important to Father Don Bosco, who was later made a saint by the Catholic Church, who used this Virgin as the cornerstone of the founding of his Salesian Congregation. The statue in Turin was even given a special canonical coronation by Pope Leo the Thirteenth in This Virgin is also venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

The earliest record of devotion in the East dates back to in Ukraine where she was given credit for helping fend off a barbarian invasion. Although this may be the case, believers affirm that God is speaking through this particular image for a certain very important reason and people should pay attention to what message this European Virgin may have to give to Mexicans.

When Carrasco brought home the image from church on that day in she placed it on the small table set up as a devotional altar in her living room. Many homes in Mexico, however modest they may be, have a similar set-up: Within days Mila noticed tears coming out of the eyes of the Virgin. The tears rolled right down the image without causing any buckling or other harm to the paper surface. She showed her family and then word spread throughout the neighborhood of what people had immediately branded a miracle.

To protect the image from excessive handling, Mila encased the icon in glass, which seemed to have no effect on the crying phenomenon. The Virgin continued to weep, every single day. As this was still her family home, with all of the regular family activities going on inside of it, Mila had created a handwritten sign to post on her front door to announce hours that her living room would be open to the curious.

This is the system she uses to this day, with a rosary prayed on the premises every day at 3: Since the late s, though, the living room which was the destination of a few pilgrims per day has been transformed into a full-fledged shrine with statues, candles and makeshift pews in which the devout and the curious can sit in quiet contemplation. Alongside the main table on which the crying image sits, there stands a nearly life-size plaster statue of Our Lady Help of Christians which was given to the Carrasco family, like so many of the other objects in the shrine, by a devout person who was helped by his visit to the home.

Also, Mila received a wooden rosary from a pilgrim as a token of thanks which also seems to be exhibiting unusual properties. The rosary was brought back from Rome in and was said to have been blessed by Pope John Paul the Second. During one of her 3: The smell associated with the rosary has also been said to fill the shrine even when no flowers are present. Many visitors do bring flowers to the shrine which is part of another curious phenomenon in the Carrasco home. One day, while cleaning up the flower petals on the floor, a woman noticed what appeared to be an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe on one of the petals.

Over the course of the next few weeks more images appeared on other flowers, too, notably the face of Christ and other likenesses of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

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A face of Christ even appeared on a tissue used to wipe away the tears of the main icon. Mila has saved all of these items and has displayed them for the camera crews and the curious. Another unusual religious manifestation that happened in the Carrasco home occurred on the cement floor of the shrine itself.

When cleaning the floor with a mop one day, sometime in the mids, Mila noticed a faint outline image of the Virgin of Guadalupe appearing when the floor was wet. This, too, has been demonstrated repeatedly and has been recorded on film. The various phenomena present in the Carrasco home has not only attracted pilgrims but has drawn the attention of paranormal researchers and debunkers.

The image of the crying Virgin between the glass can be picked up and turned around and examined. No pipes or ducts for water are present to induce the tears. One person found this helpful. What a great true story. The book The Perfect Game found at amazon gives the complete story you will never forget.

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