Index Record
Tilma of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Primary recognizable reference image for the work under discussion.
Conventional Reading
In the Catholic Guadalupe tradition, Juan Diego is said to have presented his tilma to the bishop in Mexico City in 1531, where the image associated with Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared on the cloth. Official Vatican sources state that the image is preserved at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe and describe the Guadalupe event as closely connected with indigenous cultural forms. These statements document the Church’s received tradition and present devotional object; they do not independently establish miraculous causation.
Geomytha Reading
The tilma functions as a portable sacred body under rupture: sacred continuity accepts a new form that can travel, gather, console, and carry place-memory into movement.
Parent work / tradition / source
Our Lady of Guadalupe / Juan Diego tradition
Source location / reference
Catholic Guadalupe tradition centered on the 1531 Tepeyac account and the tilma preserved at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico City. Supporting research: the Vatican biography of Saint Juan Diego and John Paul II’s 31 July 2002 canonization homily.
Reading Boundary
This is a comparative Geomytha reading. Historical claims about the apparition, the object’s origin, devotional history, and reception require external verification before publication.
Source trail
Evidence beneath the record
Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin: Biography
Official Holy See biographical page for Saint Juan Diego; authoritative for the Catholic Church’s account and current location/description of the devotional image, but not independent proof of miraculous origin.
Vatican
Canonization Homily of Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin
Official Vatican text documenting the Catholic Church’s interpretation of the Guadalupe event and its relationship to indigenous culture.
Vatican