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{{quote|Within the context of the Christian tradition, it was rather like finding a picture of [[Paul of Tarsus|St. Paul]]'s vision of [[Christ]] on the road to [[Damascus]], drawn by [[Luke the Evangelist|St. Luke]] and signed by [[Saint Peter|St. Peter]].|D. A. Brading|''Mexican Phoenix''<ref name="brading"/>}}
{{quote|Within the context of the Christian tradition, it was rather like finding a picture of [[Paul of Tarsus|St. Paul]]'s vision of [[Christ]] on the road to [[Damascus]], drawn by [[Luke the Evangelist|St. Luke]] and signed by [[Saint Peter|St. Peter]].|D. A. Brading|''Mexican Phoenix''<ref name="brading"/>}}


The Codex was studied by approximately twenty experts in various specialties, under the supervion of the Physics Institute of the [[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México]] and by [[anthropologist]], [[linguist]], and scholar of [[pre-Columbian]] [[Mesoamerica]]n cultures,[[Charles E. Dibble]] of the [[University of Utah]], as well by experts in graphology from the Bank of Mexico; the findings all indicate authenticity of the document.<ref>L'Osservatore Romano, Weekly Edition in English, 23 January 2002, page 8.</ref>
In an article published in L'Osservatore Romano in 2002, it is asserted that the "Codex has been studied by about 20 specialists in various subjects, coordinated by the Physics Institute of the UNAM and also by Dr Ch. E. Dibble [[Charles E. Dibble]] of the University of Utah, USA, and by experts in graphology of the Bank of Mexico. The results, all favourable, can be found in the Appendix to the Enciclopedia Guadalupana."<ref>L'Osservatore Romano, Weekly Edition in English, 23 January 2002, page 8.</ref>




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The Codex Escalada

The Codex Escalada, also called the Codex 1548, is a Nahuatl-language document which pictographically relates the story of the 1531 apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe on the Mexican hill of Tepeyac, an apparition which is credited with converting the indigenous peoples of Mexico to Roman Catholicism. The manuscript's authenticity has been disputed by a number of researchers.[1]

The document, which is painted on deerskin, depicts the Virgin of Guadalupe and mentions the death of Juan Diego, the Aztec man credited with witnessing the apparition. It also mentions Antonio Valeriano, the 16th-century governor of San Juan Tenochtitlan[2]. Finally, it is signed by Bernardino de Sahagún, a Franciscan historian who once complained that Guadalupan devotees were syncretically venerating the indigenous goddess Tonantzin.

In 1995, Xavier Escalada, a Spanish Jesuit who was editing an encyclopedia about the Guadalupan apparition, claimed to have discovered the codex. The discovery came at a moment when the Catholic hierarchy was deliberating the canonization of Juan Diego, and the codex allayed many doubts about the historicity of the apparition. These doubts had arisen due to arguments that there was very little documentation of the apparition between 1531 and the 1640s, when the Nican mopohua and Miguel Sanchez's Imagen de la Virgen Maria were published. However, some scholars, such as the priest-historian Stafford Poole and University of Cambridge professor Emeritus D. A. Brading, found the timing of the discovery suspicious. Brading commented on the convergence of Guadalupan personalities in the codex:

Within the context of the Christian tradition, it was rather like finding a picture of St. Paul's vision of Christ on the road to Damascus, drawn by St. Luke and signed by St. Peter.

— D. A. Brading, Mexican Phoenix[2]

In an article published in L'Osservatore Romano in 2002, it is asserted that the "Codex has been studied by about 20 specialists in various subjects, coordinated by the Physics Institute of the UNAM and also by Dr Ch. E. Dibble Charles E. Dibble of the University of Utah, USA, and by experts in graphology of the Bank of Mexico. The results, all favourable, can be found in the Appendix to the Enciclopedia Guadalupana."[3]


Notes

  1. ^ See Brading (2001), Peralta (2003), Poole (2005).
  2. ^ a b Brading (2001).
  3. ^ L'Osservatore Romano, Weekly Edition in English, 23 January 2002, page 8.

References

  • Brading, D. A. (2001). Mexican Phoenix: Our Lady of Guadalupe: Image and Tradition Across Five Centuries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-80131-1. OCLC 44868981. {{cite book}}: templatestyles stripmarker in |author= at position 1 (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Peralta, Alberto (2003). "El Códice 1548: Crítica a una supuesta fuente Guadalupana del Siglo XVI". Artículos. Proyecto Guadalupe. Retrieved 2006-12-01. {{cite web}}: templatestyles stripmarker in |author= at position 1 (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)Template:Es icon
  • Poole, Stafford (2005). "History vs. Juan Diego". The Americas. 62: pp.1–16. doi:10.1353/tam.2005.0133. {{cite journal}}: |pages= has extra text (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); templatestyles stripmarker in |author= at position 1 (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Poole, Stafford (2006). The Guadalupan Controversies in Mexico. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-5252-7. OCLC 64427328. {{cite book}}: templatestyles stripmarker in |author= at position 1 (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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