Description
This is a limited edition rosary with a chaplet design made of 6mm burnt orange and 6mm golden brown faux glass pearl beads. The chaplet features Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Divine Mercy on the reverse. The chaplet is 40cm long and is boxed.
The Mystical Rose Chaplet in Burnt Orange
Chaplet to Our Lady of Guadalupe
We used 6mm burnt orange and 6mm golden brown faux glass pearl beads. Our Lady of Guadalupe metal bead is used as the Apparition beads. The Centre piece features Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Divine Mercy on the reverse.
Boxed
Prayer sheet included
Chaplet measures 40cm in length
We make to order to your specific needs and requests. Our Speciality rosaries and chaplets are handmade in South Africa. We take care to ensure that these rosaries are UNIQUE in design. Therefore we only have one listed rosary under our special rosaries, and usually a limited edition of our Chaplet design. We also take pride in using good quality beads, chain, pins, center pieces and crucifixes.
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Also Known as:Holy Mary of Guadalupe; Virgin of Guadalupe; Maria de Guadalupe
Memorial:12 December
ProfileGuadalupe is, strictly speaking, the name of a picture, but the name was extended to the church containing the picture and to the town that grew up around the church. It makes the shrine, it occasions the devotion, it illustrates Our Lady. It is taken as representing the Immaculate Conception, being the lone figure of the woman with the sun, moon, and star accompaniments of the great apocalyptic sign with a supporting angel under the crescent. The word is Spanish Arabic, but in Mexico it may represent certain Aztec sounds.
Its tradition is long-standing and constant, and in sources both oral and written, Indian and Spanish, the account is unwavering. The Blessed Virgin appeared on Saturday 9 December 1531 to a 55 year old neophyte named Juan Diego, who was hurrying down Tepeyac hill to hear Mass in Mexico City. She sent him to Bishop Zum*rraga to have a temple built where she stood. She was at the same place that evening and Sunday evening to get the bishop's answer. The bishop did not immediately believed the messenger, had him cross-examined and watched, and he finally told him to ask the lady who said she was the mother of the true God for a sign. The neophyte agreed readily to ask for sign desired, and the bishop released him.
Juan was occupied all Monday with Bernardino, an uncle, who was dying of fever. Indian medicine had failed, and Bernardino seemed at death's door. At daybreak on Tuesday 12 December 1531, Juan ran to nearby Saint James's convent for a priest. To avoid the apparition and the untimely message to the bishop, he slipped round where the well chapel now stands. But the Blessed Virgin crossed down to meet him and said, "What road is this thou takest son?" A tender dialogue ensued. She reassured Juan about his uncle, to whom she also briefly appeared and instantly cured. Calling herself Holy Mary of Guadalupe she told Juan to return to the bishop. He asked the sign for the sign he required. Mary told him to go to the rocks and gather roses. Juan knew it was neither the time nor the place for roses, but he went and found them. Gathering many into the lap of his tilma, a long cloak or wrapper used by Mexican Indians, he came back. The Holy Mother rearranged the roses, and told him to keep them untouched and unseen until he reached the bishop. When he met with Zum*rraga, Juan offered the sign to the bishop. As he unfolded his cloak the roses, fresh and wet with dew, fell out. Juan was startled to see the bishop and his attendants kneeling before him. The life size figure of the Virgin Mother, just as Juan had described her, was glowing on the tilma. The picture was venerated, guarded in the bishop's chapel, and soon after carried in procession to the preliminary shrine.
The coarsely woven material of the tilme which bears the picture is as thin and open as poor sacking. It is made of vegetable fibre, probably maguey. It consists of two strips, about seventy inches long by eighteen wide, held together by weak stitching. The seam is visible up the middle of the figure, turning aside from the face. Painters have not understood the laying on of the colours. They have deposed that the "canvas" was not only unfit but unprepared, and they have ma