http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_20855814

By Marisela Ortega Lozano / El Paso Timeselpasotimes.com
Posted:   06/14/2012 09:43:32 AM MDT


A fire destroyed a church in Juarez but spared a Virgin of Guadalupe image despite the fierce blaze. The incident took place at about 4:04 a.m. Wednesday, at San Agustín Chapel at Paseos del Alba and Paseos del Ángel Streets. (Jesus Alcazar / El Paso Times)A fire destroyed a church in Juárez early Wednesday morning, but spared a Virgin of Guadalupe image, despite the fierce blaze, Juárez officials said today.
The incident took place at about 4:04 a.m. on Wednesday, at San Agustín Chapel at Paseos del Alba and Paseos del Ángel Streets, Juárez Fire Department officials said.

"The fire tore down the whole church," said Cap. Martin Morales, of the Fire Department in Juárez, in a telephone interview.

But the fire spared a Virgin of Guadalupe image inside the church. The beloved icon, 60 centimeters tall and one meter wide, was framed in wood.

The flames destroyed other images like St. Agustín and Jesus Christ, said Efrén Matamoros, Juárez Environmental Services and Civil Defense.

"We had no explanation of that," Matamoros said. "The image had no protection at all." The fire also destroyed 40 pews, frames and several icons. No one was hurt.

The damages were estimated at $10,000.

The fire was ruled accidental, due to an illegal connection to the electric poles in the area, firefighters said.

The parishioners are ready to rebuild the church, Matamoros said.

Marisela Ortega Lozano maybe reached at mortega@elpasotimes.com; 542-6077

Why would picture of Jesus not be spared

How reliable is the article? The photo on the page shows that
the image of Our Lady is not 60 tall and 100 wide, but 60 wide and 100 tall:

The beloved icon, 60 centimeters tall and one meter wide, was framed in wood.

I would guess the journalist making the notes was hearing an explanation
and wrote it down, but got the info confused. It's normal building specs to
always give the WIDTH of an item first, and then the HEIGHT.  (There is
exactly one exception, but that does not apply here.) But it is also commonly
found that journalists everywhere A) are ignorant of this fact and B) they
do not care about it when they are told because they are taught to
ignore details and generalities that the public will be unimpressed to
read, because selling copy is the most important criteria. A detective
would not be so scrupulous, because detectives are trained to observe
obscure details and take note of guiding principles.  :detective:

So that would have been 60 x 100, but the width is first, or 60 cm wide
by 100 cm tall (100 cm = 1 meter).

Also, they didn't literally say so, but note that the wood frame is not fire
damaged, either.


The Original, Miraculous Image of the Virgin of Guadalupe

There was a deliberate attempt 90 years ago, to destroy the original
miraculous Image in the Basilica on Tepeyac Hill. A Freemason planted a
bomb there, right in front of the Image, and it detonated, but while it
destroyed everything around it, the Image was unscathed. A nearby
bronze crucifix which was literally much further away from the bomb
than the Image was, was bent and twisted in the incident, and they
have kept that crucifix to this day, which is on display next to the
Image itself.

It's not surprising that the explanation, below, omits the fact that the deed
was planned and carried out by a Freemason. Calles was a Freemason.
But even to this day, the Freemason lackeys scrub history books and Internet
articles to eradicate the evidence. Hopefully, they will be unable to come here
and do their dirty work!

SOURCE

The Anti-apparitionists

“Where the Body is there will the eagles gather.” Some Doctors of the Church have interpreted these words of Our Lord to mean that wherever the Faith is strong, there will you find the forces of hell working with more frantic fury to destroy it. Certainly, the enemies of Jesus Christ have been a very visible reality south of the Rio Grande. And in that land they know full well that in order to crush His Church they must first demoralize the people’s confidence in Our Lady of Guadalupe. But as they have learned from experience, the more they attack her the more will her children rise up in her defense. The most recurrent attempt at disparaging the Holy Virgin was to attack the authenticity of the Image itself. Their futility in this ridiculous endeavor is pointed out in the accompanying article on the Miraculous Image. However, the anti-apparitionists, as they are called by the loyal Guadalupanos, seem never to weary of falling flat on their faces after being floored by the return fire of their own scientific weaponry. Having failed in their laboratories to shake Our Lady off her throne, less sophisticated enemies resorted to more violent measures.





During the Calles persecution in the 1920′s (which persecution by the way dared not close her shrine) the wretched conspirators attempted to blow her out of existence with a time bomb. The potent explosive, ticking away from its concealment in a flower vase right below the Image, went off on schedule during a high Mass on November 14, 1921. So severe was the explosion that it shattered all the stained-glass windows in the basilica and uplifted whole chunks of marble and masonry from the sanctuary. A huge bronze crucifix that stood above the altar was twisted as though it were made out of putty. When the smoke lifted, the stunned congregation was amazed to see that no one was hurt, not even the celebrants at the altar. And expecting to see the miraculous Image severely damaged, they looked up to her and, lo and behold, there she was, totally unscathed by the blast, and not even a crack on the protective glass that shielded her!

At the bottom of the page find a window that accesses this YouTube video
that describes a brief summary of the Juan Diego story:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs80bzYGoI8&feature=player_embedded#!