This is the same tactic they used with the image of Prophet Issa (Jesus).
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THE DARK SAINT
Mexican Catholics debate the image of Aztec saint.
Pope John Paul II canonized the Catholic Church’s first
Indian saint, Juan Diego, during his trip to Mexico on Wednesday.
Diego was an Aztec farmer who, in 1531, saw apparitions
of a dark-skinned Virgin Mary who asked him to go see the
bishop of Mexico City and tell him to build a church in her honor,
the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Pope John Paul declared
him a saint for spreading Christianity in Mexico and the Church
approved his feast day to be celebrated Dec. 9.
While this is a great feat for Latinos, as well as the Catholic
world, a number of Hispanics are dissatisfied with the honor
because of the Catholic Church’s approved artistic rendering
of Diego. The painting shows him as a fair-skinned man. And
you thought only African-Americans deal with that light-skinned
/dark-skinned issues.
Some Catholics are in anger because of the picture.
"Juan Diego is one of us - Mexican - an Indian," said Mary
Gomez, in an Arizona Daily Star report. "They should not change
him. He is dark-skinned and wore his traditional clothing. They
should not compare him to a Spaniard. It seems like racism."
In the report, another Catholic parishioner, Mike Peralta,
who made the pilgrimage to the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe,
said that he agreed with critics of the Vatican's new poster
of Juan Diego.
"Just coming down here (Mexico City) it’s really bothersome
because the official image is so different in appearance than the
indigenous Mexicans. Whose idea was it to make him European?
It seems flawed.”
The poster image is a copy of an 18th century painting that
is believed to be the earliest rendition of Juan Diego owned by
the church. Hispanic and American Indian Catholics who were
shown the European-looking version of Juan Diego questioned
the actions of the church.
The Rev. Raúl Trevizo, pastor of St. John the Evangelist
Church in Tucson, however, did acknowledge that there
is racism in the church and that the church
constantly struggles with it.
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