At the time, a shrine like this might shelter an image of the Crucifixion or the Virgin Mary, but since it is turned away from the viewer, we are not sure what it truly is.

He called it Santa María de Guadalupe de Extremadura, after the image of the Virgin Mary venerated at the Spanish monastery of Villuercas, in Guadalupe, Extremadura.

Campbell also argues that the image of the Virgin Mary was derived from the image of Isis and her child Horus: " The antique model for the Madonna, is Isis with Horus at her breast ".

" In the imperial palace in Lahore, over one of the doors, according to William Finch, a merchant, was " the Picture of our Saviour ," with an image of the Virgin Mary facing it.

The typical image of Pentecost in the West is that of the Virgin Mary seated centrally and prominently among the disciples, with flames resting on the crowns of their heads.

A second floor consists of a small entryway with an image of the Virgin Mary as a place of prayer, and a larger room containing a bed, a table for eating meals, a desk for study, a choir stall and kneeler for prayer.

* The church of St. George is also known as the Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin Helper of the Modenese People, who boasts a venerated image over the high altar.

When Juan Diego opened the cloak before Bishop Zumárraga on December 12th, the flowers fell to the floor, and in their place was the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, miraculously imprinted on the fabric.

According to the earliest account of the apparition, the Nican Mopohua, which was written in the Nahuatl language around 1556, the Virgin Mary told Juan Bernadino, the uncle of Juan Diego, that the image left on the tilma was to be known by the name " the Perfect Virgin, Holy Mary of Guadalupe.

This contains Nican mopohua (" Here it is recounted "), a tract about the Virgin which contains the story of the apparition and the supernatural origin of the image, plus two other sections, Nican motecpana (" Here is an ordered account "), describing fourteen miracles connected with Our Lady of Guadalupe, and Nican tlantica (" Here ends "), an account of the Virgin in New Spain.

Miguel Sánchez, the author of the first Spanish language apparition account, identified Guadalupe as Revelation's Woman of the Apocalypse, and said: this New World has been won and conquered by the hand of the Virgin Mary ... had prepared, disposed, and contrived her exquisite likeness in this her Mexican land, which was conquered for such a glorious purpose, won that there should appear so Mexican an image.

Throughout the Mexican national history of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Guadalupan name and image have been unifying national symbols ; the first President of Mexico ( 1824 – 29 ) changed his name from José Miguel Ramón Adaucto Fernández y Félix to Guadalupe Victoria in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

" When Hidalgo's mestizo-indigenous army attacked Guanajuato and Valladolid, they placed " the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, which was the insignia of their enterprise, on sticks or on reeds painted different colors " and " they all wore a print of the Virgin on their hats.

Morelos adopted the Virgin as the seal of his Congress of Chilpancingo, inscribing her feast day into the Chilpancingo constitution and declaring that Guadalupe was the power behind his victories: New Spain puts less faith in its own efforts than in the power of God and the intercession of its Blessed Mother, who appeared within the precincts of Tepeyac as the miraculous image of Guadalupe that had come to comfort us, defend us, visibly be our protection.

Simón Bolívar noticed the Guadalupan theme in these uprisings, and shortly before Morelos ' execution in 1815 wrote: " the leaders of the independence struggle have put fanaticism to use by proclaiming the famous Virgin of Guadalupe as the queen of the patriots, praying to her in times of hardship and displaying her on their flags ... the veneration for this image in Mexico far exceeds the greatest reverence that the shrewdest prophet might inspire.

Due to a claim that her black girdle indicates pregnancy on the image, the Blessed Virgin Mary, under this title is popularly invoked as Patroness of the Unborn and a common image for the Pro-Life movement.

The bishop then entrusted the image to Juan Diego, who chose to live, until his death at about the age of 73 — on May 30, 1548 — as a hermit near the spot where the Virgin Mary had appeared.

* On the northeast edge of the town, at the end of a broad avenue decorated with orange trees, stands the Basílica of Santa Maria del Lledó ( European Hackberry or Celtis australis ), a basilica devoted to an image of the Virgin Mary found in 1366 by a farmer when he was ploughing his lands.

The five fleurs-de-lis each had the enameled image of a saint on the central upright petal ( the front fleur-de-lis had an image of the Virgin and Child, while two of the other fleurs-de-lis had images of St George and the dragon ) as well as precious stones on the two curved side petals, while the five crosses and the arches were ornamented only with precious stones.

He could think of nothing else save his mental image of her nude figure and what Charles had said that morning about Margaret Rider.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

If, on the other hand, they opted for representation, it had to be representation per se -- representation as image pure and simple, without connotations ( at least, without more than schematic ones ) of the three-dimensional space in which the objects represented originally existed.

He had come into the Navy too young, with the image of the fun-loving Guns Appleby before him.

When she had wiped some of the lipstick from her mouth, she stared solemnly at her image in the mirror.

For his birthday, because Richard had seen them in a store and asked for them, his mother bought him the Zend-Avesta and a little image of the Indian god, Acala.

He was awarded a fellowship to continue his studies in Tokyo and he packed up his clothes, the biwa upon which he had been practicing and his image of Acala, and left to spend a week at home before leaving the country.

Richard left America with his clothes, his biwa and his image of Acala and, on the freighter which took him to Japan, he plucked at the biwa, trying to make the sounds he wrought resemble an ancient Japanese tune he had once heard.

She had used his rumpled shorts as the very image of his childishness, his lack of control, his general male looseness, while she remained cool, airy, and untouched, the charming teacher who disciplined an unruly body.

In order to help reestablish his name and improve the image of his business from the earlier controversies associated with the dangerous explosives, Nobel had also considered naming the highly powerful substance " Nobel's Safety Powder ", but settled with Dynamite instead, referring to the Greek word for ' power '.

It was during the prolonged absence of Moses that Aaron yielded to the clamors of the people, and made a Golden Calf as a visible image of the divinity who had delivered them from Egypt ( Exodus 32: 1-6 ).

He showed that the image of Jesus had changed with the times and outlooks of the various authors, and gave his own synopsis and interpretation of the previous century's findings.

Aphrodite had no childhood: in every image and each reference she is born as an adult, nubile, and infinitely desirable.

Thus, from the human body, the usual form assigned to the Deity, forasmuch as it is written that God created man in his own image, issue the two supporters, Nous and Logos, symbols of the inner sense and the quickening understanding, as typified by the serpents, for the same reason that had induced the old Greeks to assign this reptile for an attribute to Pallas.

On the day that the Circus Games occurred, Caligula had a statue made of Agrippina ’ s image to be paraded in a covered carriage at the Games.

Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

In 2006 and 2007, J. D. Monnier and his coworkers produced an image of Altair's surface from 2006 infrared observations made with the MIRC instrument on the CHARA array interferometer ; this was the first time the surface of any main-sequence star, apart from the Sun, had been imaged.

Staying at what they considered rock-bottom however showed that the Conservatives had failed to improve their negative public image, had remained somewhat disunited over Europe and had not regained the trust that they had lost in the 1990s.

It comes from a Brythonic language community ( see image ) that once extended from Great Britain to Armorica ( present-day Brittany ) and which had even established a toehold in Galicia ( in present-day Spain ).

The Bundaberg Rum Distillery admitted it was aware its brand had a reputation of being associated with aggression, and said it may change its advertising to dispel its " yobbo " image.

C. W. Ceram states in The March of Archaeology that lamassi were typically sculpted with five legs so that four legs were always visible, whether the image were viewed frontally or in profile.

Complementarians generally believe that the husband and wife are of equal worth before God, since both are created in God's image, but that husbands and wives have different functions and responsibilities that are based on gender with the husband always being the senior authority figure.

As for the other examples above, because unit vectors cannot change magnitude, their rate of change is always perpendicular to their direction ( see the left-hand insert in the image above ):

To always remind Daedalus of his treachery, Athena branded him with an image of the bird, so that he would never forget the crime he committed.

The idea of the " image of God " demonstrates both the ability of man to move toward God ( as partakers in Christ's redeeming sacrifice ), and that, on some level, man is always an image of God.

The first isomorphism theorem states that the image of any group G under a homomorphism is always isomorphic to a quotient of G. Specifically, the image of G under a homomorphism is isomorphic to where ker ( φ ) denotes the kernel of φ.

The image under an automorphism of a conjugacy class is always a conjugacy class ( the same or another ).

Lamia was cursed with the inability to close her eyes so that she would always obsess over the image of her dead children.

In Sparta, the image of Hypnos was always put near that of death.

After the betting scandal of the early 1980 ( the Calcio Scommesse scandal ) it was decided to clean up the image of Italian football by assigning referees randomly instead of picking them, in order to clear up all the suspicions and accusations always accompanying Italy's football life.

So an image of a certain structure is always blurred by the contribution of light from structures that are out of focus.

However such capabilities are not always present and the more experienced microscopist will, in many cases, still prefer a hand drawn image to a photograph.

It is always less tiring to observe with the microscope focused so that the image is seen at infinity and with both eyes open at all times.

An upright image formed by reflection in a mirror is always virtual, while an inverted image is real and can be projected onto a screen.

This is a direct connection with the fact that African Americans ’ rights were always changing, and society itself was in a temporal flux at the time he created this image.

Around 1966, a schism developed between the peacock mods ( also known as smooth mods ), who were less violent and always wore the latest expensive clothes, and the hard mods ( also known as gang mods, lemonheads or peanuts ), who were identified by their shorter hair and more working class image.

Note that the actual image ( be it 4: 3 or 16: 9 ) is always contained in the center 704 horizontal pixels of the digital frame, regardless of how many horizontal pixels ( 704 or 720 ) are used.

Or, if each twin always carried a clock indicating his age, what time would each see in the image of their distant twin and his clock?

" I was never a giant comic book fan, but I've always loved the image of Batman and the Joker.

He has four close friends: Claude Funston, a hapless working man ; Griffy, a stand-in for Bill Griffith, who often appears in the strip to complain about various aspects of modern life ; Shelf-Life, a fast-talking schemer always looking for " the next big thing "; and Vizeen Nurney, a 20-something lounge singer who, despite her rebellious image, has an optimistic and sympathetic nature.

It may be that Zeno's arguments on motion, because of their simplicity and universality, will always serve as a kind of ' Rorschach image ' onto which people can project their most fundamental phenomenological concerns ( if they have any ).