The different looks of the Virgin Mary

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Since the Virgin Mary was a real person,she must have had a particular ,individual appearance.
What is the CC explanation regarding the approved aparitions in which she looks different each time,regarding skin color ,race and garment.?
I would like to be able to see the original Virgin Mary one day, if I am worthy.
Some people talk about one Virgin or other as if they were different, not one and the same.
So again, what is the official explanation for this?Please help.
 
Tamsulosin said:
Since the Virgin Mary was a real person,she must have had a particular ,individual appearance.
What is the CC explanation regarding the approved aparitions in which she looks different each time,regarding skin color ,race and garment.?
I would like to be able to see the original Virgin Mary one day, if I am worthy.
Some people talk about one Virgin or other as if they were different, not one and the same.
So again, what is the official explanation for this?Please help.
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You will never see the “original Virgin Mary”.
If you make it to Heaven, you will see the glorified, resurrected Virgin Mary.
 
Tamsulosin said:
Since the Virgin Mary was a real person,she must have had a particular ,individual appearance.
What is the CC explanation regarding the approved aparitions in which she looks different each time,regarding skin color ,race and garment.?
I would like to be able to see the original Virgin Mary one day, if I am worthy.
Some people talk about one Virgin or other as if they were different, not one and the same.
So again, what is the official explanation for this?Please help.
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Are there pictures of the apparitions? Or do the descriptions provided by others differ perhaps?
 
For example the Virgen of Guadalupe of which we have an image given by the Virgen herself, is quite different from , for example the images we are used to see of the Virgen
of the Inmaculate Conception, or the Virgen Mary you see at brazilian Churches,which is black.
 
I don’t see it much differently than the images we have of Jesus. People are naturally going to make images that seem beautiful to them.

The image of Mary the other posted linked doesn’t show facial features at all. I cannot honestly say whether she looks different in that picture than a painting.
 
Remember how Jesus was among the Disciples while they were on the road to Emmaus, yet they did not recognize Him? It’s possibly a similar case with Mary. Plus, God probably wants those seeing the apparitions to know who she is and still feel comfortable. At Guadalupe, she appeared as an Aztec woman. If Africa, she appears as a Black African. In Asia, namely Akita, Japan, she appears Asian. And in Europe, she appears European.
 
wsxyz said:
You will never see the “original Virgin Mary”.
If you make it to Heaven, you will see the glorified, resurrected Virgin Mary.
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Mary was not resurrected-
The doctrine of the Assumption says that at the end of her life on earth Mary was assumed, body and soul, into heaven, just as Enoch, Elijah, and perhaps others had been before her. It’s also necessary to keep in mind what the Assumption is not. Some people think Catholics believe Mary “ascended” into heaven. That’s not correct. Christ, by his own power, ascended into heaven. Mary was assumed or taken up into heaven by God. She didn’t do it under her own power.
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The Church has never formally defined whether she died or not, and the integrity of the doctrine of the Assumption would not be impaired if she did not in fact die, but the almost universal consensus is that she did die. Pope Pius XII, in Munificentissimus Deus (1950), defined that Mary, “after the completion of her earthly life” (note the silence regarding her death), “was assumed body and soul into the glory of heaven.”
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The possibility of a bodily assumption before the Second Coming is suggested by Matthew 27:52–53: “[T]he tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.” Did all these Old Testament saints die and have to be buried all over again? There is no record of that, but it is recorded by early Church writers that they were assumed into heaven, or at least into that temporary state of rest and happiness often called “paradise,” where the righteous people from the Old Testament era waited until Christ’s resurrection (cf. Luke 16:22, 23:43; Heb. 11:1–40; 1 Pet. 4:6), after which they were brought into the eternal bliss of heaven.
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You have to actually die to be resurrected, and the Church gives no definitive answer on whether or not Mary did. Only Jesus was resurrected form the dead.
 
HailMary, do you know any information about when and where that picture was taken?
I have never heard of it before.Is it approved by the CC?
 
I know it didn’t have a face, I just thought I’d throw that in there.
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HailMary, do you know any information about when and where that picture was taken?
I have never heard of it before.Is it approved by the CC?
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It was in Egypt, maybe Alexandria, can’t remember exactly. But hundreds gathered as she was on the top of a Coptic Church for awhile.
 
Well, excuse me, thousands witnessed it. I read something that it said upto 500,000.
 
I received a brief video entitled “The virgin allowed us to photoghraphed Her”.It is not a still picture.
I do not know how to attach it to the thread. But again,I do not know if it is approved by the CC.It may be found in UTUBE.
So far I had two ideas from you:
One is that so that we feel comfortable She presents Herself
looking with the characteristics of the population among which She appears(be asian, caucasian, etc).
The other is that the observer of the apparition tends to see her looking as one of them,
since probably the features are not that clear in the midst of all that light.
These ideas make sense.But what is the position of the church regarding the subject of this thread? Does anybody know?
Perhaps what bothers me is when people talk about venerating for example “the Virgin of Fatima” or the Virgin of Lujan", etc, instead of about our Lady when She appeared in Fatima, or when She appeared in Lujan.Because She appeared looking different and in different localities,She is still our celestial one and only Virgin Mary.
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There really has to be some ancient drawing created by the first Christians SOMEWHERE…I think that would be the most accurate depiction.
 
Morgan_Hiver said:
There really has to be some ancient drawing created by the first Christians SOMEWHERE…I think that would be the most accurate depiction.
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You’d be surprised. Even the earliest known image of the Crucifixion is from a couple of centuries after the fact. And it’s not what you might call an “accurate depiction”:

 
Oneofthewomen said:
Mary was not resurrected-
You have to actually die to be resurrected, and the Church gives no definitive answer on whether or not Mary did. Only Jesus was resurrected form the dead.
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Mary has a glorified body - the same sort of body that Christ has, and that the saints in Heaven will have after their bodies are resurrected.
 
Tamsulosin said:
Since the Virgin Mary was a real person,she must have had a particular ,individual appearance.
What is the CC explanation regarding the approved aparitions in which she looks different each time,regarding skin color ,race and garment.?
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Whenever Our Lady takes pity on us poor sinners by gracing one or many of us with the honour of her presence she simply assumes an appearance in which we can relate with her. Personally whenever I am praying a Hail Mary I imagine I am addressing the Blessed Virgin in person and in my mind she usually has the appearance of a Caucasian women (of surpassing beauty of course!) with dark hair and blue eyes dressed in white and blue.

Or whenever I recite my Hail, Holy Queen concluding the rosary I imagine I am addressing Our Lady under different circumstances. For example at the end of the Sorrowful Mysteries I address Our Lady as she’s kneeling at the foot of the Holy Cross clothed in dark and solemn colours and at the end of the Glorious Mysteries I address her as she’s enthroned and crowned by the Most Holy Trinity as Queen of Heaven.

Strangely she’s never a blond in my mind :p.
Some people talk about one Virgin or other as if they were different, not one and the same.
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Our Lady of Lourdes and Our Lady of Fátima are of course one and the same Blessed Virgin, Mother of God and Queen of Heaven. However it is appropriate that we address her by the apparitions under which she has visited us because of the different messages and reasons for her visits.

If the Queen of England can have various titles why can’t the Queen of Heaven :D?
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Mary has a glorified body - the same sort of body that Christ has, and that the saints in Heaven will have after their bodies are resurrected.
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This is something I have always wondered. Has Mary already been resurrected by Christ or will she join the rest of us in the resurrection at the End Times?
 
Haha that’s horrendous! Makes the ancient Christians seem like a bunch of cavemen with low IQs.
 
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