Doctor Margaret Pasakas placed her stethoscope on the heart of the Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Joseph Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania. To her utter astonishment she heard a human heartbeat and knelt down in tearful veneration. (see photos below)

 The Missionary Image is a full-size 4’x6’ digital copy of the original Miraculous Image that the Virgin Mary left on Saint Juan Diego’s cloak in Mexico on December 12, 1531. It was displayed for veneration during a Visitation to the hospital’s chapel. The Image has journeyed on Visitations throughout the world and in each state of the United States in over one thousand parishes. It has received the veneration of hundreds of thousands. Many signs, wonders, conversions, healings, reconciliations and graces have been reported. Mary’s heartbeat is a sign of her love for us, her spiritual children.

 During the Visitation to Reading over 200 venerators felt the heartbeat of an unborn child in the pregnant womb of the Virgin Mary in the image. Many others throughout the United States have felt this sign. It is a sign that life begins at conception and is not a “choice” for the mother because God, the Author of Life, has already chosen the child for life.

 Other signs manifested by God through the Missionary Image are tears of oil from Mary’s eyes, three-dimensional pregnancy, the opening of her eyes and the aroma of roses.

 During the Reading Visitation, the Image also visited churches, a nursing home, and a school and was processed through the city streets to an abortion center.

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