The Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is coming to visit St. Mary Magdalene Church. This is an exact 4’ x 6 ‘digital replica of the original Miraculous Image of Mary, which appeared on St. Juan Diego’s cloak in Mexico on December 12, 1531.  The Rector of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Msgr. Diego Monroy Ponce, blessed the Image for the mission of promoting sanctity of the family, solidarity of the Church in America , a reverence for life and conversions.

It is hoped that the visitation will give great honor to Our Lady, all to the glory of God !

May Our Lady end abortion, melt hearts and convert millions today just as she did over 460 years ago.

We will have a prayer service at the Abortion Clinic with the Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Saturday, Oct. 27 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., located at 1142 Grove Road.(1/2 mile from Greenville Hospital )  

Please come join our Prayer Service with Public Veneration on Saturday, October 27 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in our parish.

Please call St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church, Simpsonville , SC

Call (864) 288-4884 for more information.

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Doctor Hears Virgin Mary’s Heartbeat on Image!

Doctor Margaret Pasakas placed her stethoscope on the heart of the Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Joseph Hospital in Allentown , Pennsylvania . To her utter astonishment, she heard a human heartbeat and knelt down in tearful veneration. 

 The Missionary Image is a full-size 4’x6’ digital copy of the original Miraculous Image that the Virgin Mary left on Saint Juan Diego’s cloak in Mexico on December 12, 1531. It was displayed for veneration during a visitation to the hospital’s chapel. The Image has journeyed on visitations throughout the world and in each state of the United States in over one thousand parishes. It has received the veneration of hundreds of thousands. Many signs, wonders, conversions, healings, reconciliations and graces have been reported. Mary’s heartbeat is a sign of her love for us, her spiritual children.

 During the Visitation to Reading , Pennsylvania , over 200 venerators felt the heartbeat of an unborn child in the pregnant womb of the Virgin Mary in the image. Many others throughout the United States have felt this sign. It is a sign that life begins at conception and is not a “choice” for the mother because God, the Author of Life, has already chosen the child for life.

 Other signs manifested by God through the Missionary Image are tears of oil from Mary’s eyes, three-dimensional pregnancy, the opening of her eyes, and the aroma of roses.

 During the Reading Visitation, the Image also visited churches, a nursing home, and a school and was processed through the city streets to an abortion center.

The 450-year-old Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is more than simply a picture.

 It contains symbols-in a sense, hieroglyphics, or a story in pictures that reveal part of the message the Blessed Mother brought through Juan Diego to the Indians of Mexico and to all the people of the Americas.

But the symbols had a special meaning to the Indians, who because of their culture could decipher the code in the Image.

1. EYES

The eyes of the Image are looking down, a position of humility, revealing that, as great as she is, she is not God. Indian gods never looked down; they looked straight ahead.

2. FACE

The woman’s face shows great compassion. The Indians felt that the face was the window of the inner person, a means by which one could read who a person was-the way a person would act. A good woman to the Indians was one whose femininity showed in her face. The head of the woman in the Image shows her with dark skin and dark hair like that of the Indians.

3. HANDS

Her hands are not poised in the traditional Western style of prayer, but in an Indian manner of offering, indicating that something is being offered, that something is to come from her.

4. MATERNITY BAND

The maternity band around the woman’s waist was the sign of a pregnant woman, a mother who is about to give birth; it was a sign to the Indians that someone is yet to come.

5. STARS       

The stars on the mantle are a sign that a new civilization, or era, is beginning. The Indian tradition recognized the end and the beginning of different eras throughout the ages, and destruction of a particular civilization or era was always accompanied by a comet, or a body of stars. Indian prophets even before the arrival and conquest by the Spaniard Hernán Cortés had been predicting the end of their civilization at that time.

6. SUNRAYS

The rays of sun in the Image recalled for the Indians that the sun played a key role in their civilization. But the woman in the Image is greater than even the sun. She hides the sun, and only the rays come forth. She hides the sun but does not extinguish it.

7. MANTLE

The predominant color in the Image’s mantle is turquoise, the blue-green color reserved for the great god Omecihuatl. Although the Indians had many “intermediary gods,” Omechihuatl was considered the supreme god. It was a mother-father god who sometimes was represented as a man and sometimes as a woman. It was a source of unity for everything that exists.

8. MOON

The woman is standing on the moon, indicating that she is greater than the god of night, the moon god.

9. ANGEL

The “angel” at the bottom of the Image was seen by the Indians as an “intermediary god” carrying in a new era, the beginning of a new civilization. One era was at an end, and a new was beginning