Josie,
I read back to the original peoples of Mexico through the time of the Conquistador up to the Masonic Revolution through various sources, some Catholic others not. The Spanish were in great awe of the Aztecs and the great wonders of their civilization and the floating gardens were a sight to behold. In regards to the war and slaughter, the relations obviously became tense, and one Spanish captain was left in charge of the troops, and there was a slaughter of Aztecs.
On the other hand, people don’t know about the Aztec reign of terror over other Indian tribes. Some estimated 80,000 neighboring Indians were slaughtered in human sacrifice every year by the Aztecs, one slaughter took about 20,000 at one festival. I read about the Aztec priests, the custom of the warriors carrying flowers a certain way to show gentlemanliness, the plaza and daily work, and the temple of human sacrifice. The Spaniards were shocked and repulsed by this religion. They battled to replace the sacrifice altar with the statue of the Blessed Virgin. The Aztecs removed it and this was what brought on the war. It took two years. In the final stages the Aztecs were leading their own toddlers up the steps to be sacrificed so they could win the war.
In the end, when the Spaniards won with the help of the neighboring Indians, it was the natives who continued the fighting and the slaughter of Aztecs.
Afterwards, Bishop Zumarraga deplored the relations between the Spanish and the Indians, and finally prayed to heaven for help, asking for roses in December. Then later, Juan Diego was walking down a path, a Catholic convert who walked 13 miles a day and a sacristan at the chapel, and this woman appeared to him next to the temple of an Aztecan goddess of peace. He changed his route another day, and the woman appeared to him, and asked him to pick the roses next to her and take them to the bishop. When Juan arrived, he opened his cape, and the roses fell out along with the image of Mary…of Guadalupe…in the language of the pictograph.
What is incredible as well is that the stars embedded on the tilma revealed through science the placement of the stars in the sky for that particular day 400 years ago! And there were close up’s made of Mary’s eyes…and the mirror reflection of Juan and the bishop and an attendant were also captured. She wore this cross around her neck like the image of the one in the dream of Montezuma. Her hands were folded in prayer, so she was not a goddess. And she was standing in front of the sun…representing the sun and standing on the crescent moon – representing the moon god who demanded human sacrifice to allow the sun to return the following day. She is pregnant with Jesus because of the height of the sash around her mid section. And she has fleur dis lis on her gown, representing perfection in number 8…I have a book by a fellow how studied the entire image and all the inherent symbolism in every part…ST. Michael the Archangel stood beneath the crescent moon and held Mary up…and in the image of the crescent moon in close up are images of demons.
Through Mary of Guadalupe and the bishop’sprayers, peace came between the Spaniards and the Aztecs.
A pope was praying to Mary for help using the copy of the image of Guadalupe back in Rome as the Moslems were attempting to attack and overcome the Church. Through Mary of Guadalupe’s prayers, a great wind came over the battle and the Turks were blown back…there were also 12,000 Christian slaves being used in Moslem ships…and many thousands of both Christians and Moslems were killed in the Battle of Lepanto. It was the last major attack on the Christian West by the Moslems in the 1500’s.
Mary of Guadalupe was looking north in the tilma’s image…so she also has her concern for North America. When the tilma of Mary was shown to the Aztecan people, they immediately read the message of her pictograph and were converted. They shot arrows up into the air, but one came down and killed an Indian. His body was quickly transported to the tilma, and he was suddenly brought back to life and healed. The tilma is made of cactus fibers and they last at the most 20 years…this is on display in Mexico for over 400 years now.
Mary’s story of ‘Roses in December’. I have shared it with some dying people and just now the other day with a woman who does not believe in God, but is a benevolent person and pagan. She told me she was raped 5 times by her relatives, and again as an adult, and I gave her a medal of Mary. She said she likes Catholics and always thought it good how we include Mary a woman in the teachings of our church.
Through Bishop Zumarraga, a Spaniard, he allowed Aztec women and girls the right to an education hundreds of years before American women. During the time Spain ruled Mexico, 1521 to 1821, Spain raised the Mexican people and their country to equality with the Europeans in religion, education, and opportunity, producing a flourishing and prosperous Catholic civilization with colleges, universities, hospitals, orphanages and institutions for the poor just as the Catholic Church had done for Europeans. The great Masonic revolution committed wanton destruction from 1820 to 1928 with one interlude of peace in 1876 to 1911.
The Catholic priests were loved by the Mexican people as well. The Catholic priests developed grammar books for the Aztecs for their own native language, the first institution for the Indians was Santa Cruz College in Tlaltelolco. The college turned out Indian Aztecan scholars as finished in Spanish. Bishop Zumarraga was the founder opening the school in 1534, 13 years after the taking of Mexico City. In 1553, there were 3…there is alot to learn about Catholic Mexico.
