The medal is thin (1 mm), and very light in weight. The medal is front engraved, and the backside is plain.
A minimalist, everyday necklace that goes with anything. This necklace is designed to be worn all day.
DETAILS:
Necklace length: 17" / 43.68 cm
Virgin Mary pendant diameter: 1" x 1.5" inches / 2.5 x 3.8 cm
Gold plated tiny bead chain, 1mm
About Our Lady of Guadalupe: On the morning of December 9, 1531, a native American peasant named Juan Diego saw a vision of a maiden at a place called the Hill of Tepeyac, which would become part of Villa de Guadalupe, a suburb of Mexico City. Speaking to him in his native Nahuatl language (the language of the Aztec empire), the maiden identified herself as the Virgin Mary, "mother of the very true deity and asked for a church to be built at that site in her honor.
Historically the devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe did not lack clerical opponents within Mexico, especially in the early years, and in more recent times some Catholic scholars, and even a former abbot of the basilica, Monsignor Guillermo Schulenburg, have openly doubted the historical existence of Juan Diego. Nonetheless, Juan Diego was canonized in 2002, under the name Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin.
