Dear Philothea

Our Lady of Guadalupe

I stumbled upon something interesting in the Adoration Chapel today. (Not the worst place to find something interesting, by the way). It was the translation of the names of Christopher Columbus' ships: Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. If you put them in a certain order it could read "Mary paints the young woman." The book I was reading was trying to argue that this could be a foreshadowing of the Blessed Virgin painting her image on the cloak of Juan Diego. Cool, verdad?

One other thing fact the book mentioned was that Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared in the same area as the previous goddess of wheat (who provided wheat to the Native Americans). Jesus is our wheat, the Bread of Life!