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Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Event of Guadalupe and Recent Publication is the subject of the 4th Guadalupe Congress 26- 31 July organised as part of celebrations for the 475th anniversary of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Guadalupe. Specialists and experts will speak on publications and studies of the phenomenon and try to answer questions on the “cloak of Saint Juan Diego, dimensions, resistance to time, its significance for the Indigenous peoples today, Juan Diego the real story”.
Publications to be discussed include: "Guadalupe, pulse and heart of a nation" Comboni missionary Fidel González Fernández, consultor of the congregation for the causes of saints; "Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin" Ms Ana Rita Valero, president of the Universal Arch-Fraternity of Guadalupe, and Arturo Rocha Cortés, editor of the Guadalupe Bulletin; "Gudaalupe Homilies 16th to 18th Century" Fr. Francisco Shulte OSB; “Santa Maria of Guadalupe, Icon of Jesus" Fr. Carlos Triana González, CJM; “The cloak of Guadalupe reveals its secrets” Fr. Fernando Ojeda Llanes. There will also be the presentation of a Handbook on 11,000 early documents contained in the Archives of the Basilica of Santa María de Guadalupe
The Congress will be opened by Mgr. Diego Monroy Ponce, vicar general and rector of Guadalupe Shine and will include cultural events. The event will close with a concelebration of Mass presided by Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, archbishop of Mexico City diocese on 31 July, the 4th anniversary of the canonisation of Saint Juan Diego in Mexico by John Paul II. (RG) (Agenzia Fides 27/7/2006; righe 25, parole 323)