Venerated the world over, Our Lady of Guadalupe is perhaps one of the most striking images of the Virgin Mary around. She is the patroness of the unborn and of the Americas. A relic image - one of 220 full-size copies which have touched the miraculous image - is currently travelling around England and Wales in a low-key tour that will culminate on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in December.
Edmund Adamus, the director of Pastoral Affairs for Westminster archdiocese, has organised the tour and hopes, among other things, that the presence of the relic image of Our Lady of Guadalupe will renew an understanding of England as the Dowry of Mary.
