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Pope Benedict the Fourteenth

Bishop of Rome, 1740 – 1758

Pope Benedict the Fourteenth

Signs of this pontificate

Wonders this archive keeps that belong to the years he sat, or that he himself stood before.

Our Lady of Guadalupe — Tepeyac, Mexico City. The tilma of Juan Diego: Mary as a mestiza woman, hands in prayer, standing on a crescent, stars on her mantle, the image that still hangs in Mexico City.
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Our Lady of Guadalupe

Tepeyac, Mexico City1531

Mary appears to St. Juan Diego, asks for a church, and leaves her image on his cactus-fiber tilma — an image still visible, and still drawing millions, nearly five centuries later.

6 studied signs on this image

Return to the rail — scroll left for Peter.