Our Lady of Guadalupe

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Our Lady of Guadalupe
Patroness of the Americas
Patroness of the Unborn
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Why Did Our Lady Select The Americas?
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The Aztecs were executing 50,000 men, women and
children every year As sacrifices to their False
Gods
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1487
We must sadly remember that the Aztec priests
executed annually at least 50,000 inhabitants of
the land, men, women and children, in human
sacrifices to their gods. In 1487, just in a
single 4 days long ceremony for the dedication of
a new temple in Tenochtitlan, some 80,000
captives were killed in human sacrifice. The same
practices, which in most cases included the
cannibalism of the victims limbs, were common
also in earlier Mesoamerican cultures, with
widespread Olmec, Toltec and Maya human
sacrificing rituals.
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And here we are in 2013 Killing more than 1
Million Babies every year
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54,561,506 Babies Were Murdered In The United
States Since 1973 As a Result of Roe versus Wade
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Why did Our Lady Choose the Americas To leave the
most Absolute Proof of Her Existence? I Think It
Is Obvious!
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1474
An Indian named Quauhtlatoatzin (Juan Diegos
Aztec Name) was born in Cuautitlan
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1476
Juan de Zumarraga (later to become Bishop in
Mexico) was born in Spain.
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1492
Christopher Columbus landed on an island in the
Americas and named it San Salvador.
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1519
Herman Cortez lands in Mexico and Conquers the
Capital City of the Aztecs
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1524
The first twelve Franciscan Missionaries arrive
in Mexico
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1525
The Indian Cuauhtlatoatzin is Baptized by a
Franciscan Priest and ias given the name Juan
Diego
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1529
Problems arise between the Spanish who
established the government and the evangelizing
Missionaries. There is a plot to kill Bishop
Zumarraga but he escapes harm.
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1531
A series of events such as earthquakes, a comet
and a solar eclipse leads the Indians to believe
the World is about to end from the 9th to the
12th of December
Our Lady of Guadalupe appears to Juan Diego
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The Miracle of Our Lady of Guadalupe Having got
to the presence of Zumárraga, Juan offered the
sign. As he unfolded his cloak the roses fell
out, and he was startled to see the bishop and
his attendants kneeling before him the life size
figure of the Virgin Mother, just as he had
described her, was glowing on the poor tilma.
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1541
9 Million Aztecs have been Baptized
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1548
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1999
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2002
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Acid Spill
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Why We Love Our Lady
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The following are just a few of the of the
somewhat Miraculous events that have occured
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2003
Our experience began in January of 2003 when our
daughter in law, Stephanie was diagnosed with
breast cancer. Our son Mark and Stephanie were
married in 2002 and have a newborn son, Ben. Upon
receiving the word of the diagnosis from our son
Mark, I immediately preceded to St. Norbert
School (I repair the computers at the school) to
ask that my THREE favorite teachers and students
pray for our daughter in law, Stephanie. Upon
arriving at the school, I found that it had
closed early due to the snow storm that we were
experiencing. Interestingly enough, when I pulled
into the school parking lot I found only three
cars remaining, everyone else had gone home. The
only people left at school were my three dear
friends, Barbara (Religion Teacher), Margie (5th
grade) and Mary (4th grade). Upon asking the
teachers at Saint Norbert School to pray for
Stephanie, the religion teacher, Mrs. Barbara
Goslin, ask if I was familiar with Our Lady of
Guadalupe. I informed her that, of course I knew
Our Lady of Guadalupe was in fact the Blessed
Mother, but beyond that, I had no knowledge.
Barbara told me about how she had become involved
and the history of Our Lady
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• Barbara had been stricken with melanoma and had
  been very ill for quite some time. She had been
  attending St. Isaac Jogues in Chesterbrook and
  told me that she was so ill on some days that she
  could scarcely walk up the aisle. On one
  particular day a man approached Barbara and said
  that he wanted to help. The man gave Barbara an
  Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe with the
  understanding that she pray to the Lady and that
  she permit the Lady to visit other people for
  periods of seven days at a time.

Barbara was the 1st Guardian
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Several days after the original diagnosis was
made, Stephanie was given a Pet scan. The
results of the PET scan were virtually
devastating. Stephanie was told that she not
only had breast cancer but she also had cancer
many other places and that if in fact this
diagnosis proved to be correct she most likely
had less than two years to live. Upon hearing
this news, I once again approached Barbara and
ask if it would be possible that we get the Lady
at an earlier time, and Barbara made the
arrangements. That evening my wife and I drove
the Lady the following day our prayers were
answered. Stephanie went to Fox Chase Cancer
Center for follow up tests and discovered the
results of the Pet Scan to be false. Only breast
cancer, as per the original diagnosis, showed. To
say that Stephanie (and her family/ours) was
relieved would surely be an understatement. She
was in fact given back her life. She could be
with her son and her husband. Stephanie had
surgery and chemotherapy and has made a complete
recovery. Interestingly enough, every time
Stephanie was to receive a Chemo treatment she
requested that the Lady be with her.
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It was a Saturday night and our grandsons
girlfriend had been visiting us. Michele had
gotten quite upset because she was leaving. My
wife and I walked with our visitor to her car.
When we returned, ten minutes later, Michele was
having difficulty breathing. We could hear a
terrifying sound in her chest. We assessed the
situation and quickly decided we needed to go to
the hospital immediately. Thankfully, we live
within five minutes of the hospital. Even so, by
the time we arrived Michele's lips had turned
purple and she was in serious trouble. The
nurses and the aides at the hospital pulled her
from the car and rushed her into the emergency
room. They immediately had to ventilate her
since she was suffocating and her kidneys had
shut down. At 500 A.M. they moved her from the
emergency room to the intensive care unit. My
wife and I decided, since she was resting and
breathing with the help of the Ventilator, to
leave the hospital for couple hours and go to
730 A, M. Mass, and then return to the hospital.
We spent the entire day at the hospital. That
evening Michele's brother Mark brought the Image
of Our Lady to the intensive care unit. It was
just coincidental that Marks wife, Stephanie,
had the Image of the Lady for the past seven days
because she had been undergoing chemotherapy. On
Sunday evening we placed the Image of Our Lady on
the wall in intensive care unit and prayed. The
following morning I was first to arrive at the
hospital. Upon entering the intensive care unit,
Michele was sitting up in with your legs folded
under her. The ventilator had been removed and
she was breathing on her own. She spotted me long
before I got to the room and hollered, Hi Dad!
What a great greeting that was! Everyone was
astounded at the change that occurred between
Sunday evening at 900 PM and Monday morning at
800 AM.
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My friend, Jim Garbarino called to tell me that
he had been just diagnosed with cancer of the
esophagus. Needless to say my friend Jim was
devastated. He told me that he actually called
me before a calling his father. I told him I
didn't know what to say except that I was honored
to be the one that he called for a kind word. He
said Wayne, I really don't know what to do! I
said well Jim I do. So that evening accompanied
by Our Lady I drove twenty miles to visit with my
friend. Jim said to me Wayne what are we going
to do? I said well Jim were going to kneel
down and pray. Jim made a complete recovery and
became a Guardian
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• This is Marys story, whom we met through a
  friend of my friend Jim Garbarino This is a photo
  of Mary and her younger sister, Mary is on the
  right. In December of 2003 I received devastating
  news.  I was diagnosed with Non Hodgkins
  Follicular Lymphoma at the age of 23.  I cried
  myself to sleep every night wondering why this
  happened to me, why now, and what was going to
  happen.  One night, a few days after my diagnosis
  I spoke to my good friend Sara on the phone. I
  expressed all of my fears to her and we cried
  together.  A few days after Sara and I had that
  conversation, Sara called me and told me about an
  Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.  She had been
  working in her familys print shop when an old
  friend of her father, Jim Garbarino, stopped in. 
  They had not seen each other for many years.  Jim
  was telling Saras father about his fight against
  cancer and how he owed so much to Our Lady. Upon
  hearing Jims story regarding Our Lady of
  Guadalupe, Sara ask Jim how to go about getting
  the Image for me. Jim said that he would contact
  Wayne Lilly, the Guardian of the Image, and make
  arrangements for me to get the Image.   Sara
  arranged for me to host Our Lady.  Both Jim and
  Wayne traveled to my apartment to bring the
  precious Image and to share their stories.  When
  I first saw Our Lady it was breathtaking.  It is
  hard to explain in words the beauty and peace
  that she brings.  We all prayed together and when
  everyone was gone and I sat in my room with Our
  Lady.  My whole attitude changed and I was no
  longer scared. 
•  I had Our Lady for quite a while during my
  treatment.  Hosting Our Lady was a truly amazing
  experience and I can still now always feel her
  around me.  I received chemotherapy at Johns
  Hopkins and I am now, a year later, still in
  remission.  My doctors were very pleased with my
  results and how well I responded to the
  therapy. Inside I know that Our Lady was
  protecting me

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This is my wifes cousin Ron, who has suffered a
lifetime of illness Ron's problems began many
years ago when he was just a teenager growing up
with my wife and I in a small town in western
Pennsylvania. Recently, Ron developed problems
with his vertebrate cracking, one after another.
He was constantly in the hospital having surgery
to repair the defective vertebrate. No sooner
would he get home and the next one would crack. I
went to visit with him in the hospital and
during my visit I gave him a small Image of Our
Lady. Immediately thereafter, the problem with
the cracking vertebrate ended.  While going
through this problem Ron was also Suffering from
problems with his liver. Drain tubes had to be
inserted in his liver to keep it functioning. His
liver continued to deteriorate until he was
hospitalized in Jefferson Hospital in
Philadelphia. During his stay, his wife contacted
me to ask if I could take his sister, Mother
Mary Anne of St. Emmas Convent in Greensburg to
visit with Ron. Of course I agreed to do this so
my wife I drove Mother Mary Anne to Jefferson.
Ron was found to be quite ill his liver had
virtually ceased functioning. He had been placed
on the Liver transplant list he was told that he
was 120 down on the list and that Jefferson only
received 40 livers per year. This of course put
our friend Ron in very serious situation since
his liver was not functioning any longer. During
our visit, Ron said Wayne do you remember the
Image you had given me of Our Lady a month or two
before. Well, Ron had forgotten to bring the
Image to Jefferson. I always have one in my
pocket so I gave it t Ron. We left the hospital
and returned home. This was on a Thursday on
Friday evening Ron called at 10 PM and was
crying with Joy. He said Wayne, Im getting my
new liver in the morning. He did receive the
replacement liver and is now doing really well
with as he says, a fully functioning liver for
the first time in many years.
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There has been virtually a never ending
series of stories like those that we have
referred to above This is why We Love Our Lady of
Guadalupe
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Become a Guardian of Guadalupe
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You will receive an 11 X 14 Image of Our Lady
of Guadalupe Have the Image Framed Have the Image
Blessed Share the Image with anyone that has a
Special Intention for seven days Pray for
an end to abortion
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As a Guardian you will receive our monthly
Newsletter Every month you will receive an email
requesting the names of those people that you
would like to have added to our
Prayer Request List
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Thank You!
For Allowing
Us To Share Our Story
With You Today
Wayne Harriet Lilly