La Virgen de Guadalupe

 Growing up with a family that has strong beliefs in the catholic religion, more important we are from Mexico, where La Virgen de Guadalupe appeared. It was almost mandatory to have an image of “La Virgen de Guadalupe” in our altares or hanged on the wall, sometimes I remember even carrying her on a calendar inside my wallet. All the culture that my family has and thought me while growing up build  a strong faith in me, even today I still have a picture of La  Virgen in my room, for me it represents a great deal of things. Just like the artist painting about her they have different meanings and different styles of interpreting her. La Virgen to me represents for example: feminism, motherhood, nurture, faithfulness, protection, I can continue on and on. While I am learning more, and getting more educated I discover that not everything has to remain the same, in terms of my beliefs according to La Virgen de Guadalupe, and my catholic religion. Things change, and we need to adapt to them, for example since I’m finding out that the whole story of La Virgen de Guadalupe is not backed by books or written testimonies of people in that era I tend to question the story itself and even the image of La Virgen. Even though that we will never know if it is a made up story 100%, La Virgen de Guadalupe will continue on being a miracle for the catholic religion and most important for the Mexican believers.