Guadalupe Mysteries

Our Lady of Guadalupe is the most beloved symbol of Mexican Catholicism, and devotion to her is extensive in the USA. While she has enchanted and encouraged Mexican Catholics for several centuries, believers and even nonbelievers, the world over are encouraged and intrigued by her. Millions of devoted pilgrims visit her shrine in Mexico City every year. Both Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis travelled there to pray for her motherly intercession. 

Many scientists have studied the amazing elements of her mysterious image. In this spectacular, lavishly illustrated book, the celebrated author-photographer team Grzegorz Górny and Janusz Rosikon take the reader on an illustrated pilgrimage to Our Lady of Guadalupe. They tell the astonishing story of her apparition to Juan Diego in 1531 and its incredible impact upon the destiny of an entire people. They interview the various experts on the image and reveal its symbolic messages, those of the past and those speaking to us today.