NICAN MOPOHUA: HER IMAGE ON THE TILMA
181. And then he held out his white tilma, in the hollow of which he had placed the flowers.
182. And just as all the different precious flowers fell to the floor,
183. then and there the beloved Image of the Perfect Virgin Holy Mary, Mother of God, became the sign, suddenly appeared in the form and figure in which it is now,
184. where it is preserved in her beloved little house, in her sacred little house at Tepeyac, which is called Guadalupe.
185. And as soon as the Governing Bishop and all those who were there saw it, they knelt, they were full of awe and reverence.
186. They stood up to see it, they became sad, they wept, their hearts and minds were in ecstasy.
187. And the Governing Bishop weeping and with sadness begged and asked her to forgive him for not having immediately carried out her will, her holy breath, her holy word.
188. And when he got up, he untied Juan Diego’s garment, his tilma, from his neck where it was tied
189. On which the Heavenly Queen appeared, on which she became the sign,
190. And then he took it and placed it in his private chapel.
191. And Juan Diego still stayed for the day in the Bishop’s house, he still kept him there.
192 And on the next day he said to him: "Come, let’s go so you can show where it is that the Queen of Heaven wants her chapel built."
193. People were immediately invited to make it, to build it.