Today is the Feast Day of St. Juan Diego. Juan Diego is the fifty something man who was walking over a mountain on the way to mass one morning in the 1500's in what is now Mexico City (then called Tepeyac Hill) and met the Queen of Heaven, the Blessed Virgin Mary (a.k.a. the mother of Jesus Christ). She told him that he and all the people of Mexico (and the world) are her children and she loves him. They met on a number of occasions at that spot. To help Juan Diego convince other people, including the local bishop, that she is our Queen in heaven and our mother, too, she placed Castillian roses (which only grew in Spain and were the bishop's favorite flower) on his cape or tilde. Remember that this was the middle of winter in middle Mexico and it was cold, so roses wouldn't have been growing then even if they were indigenous to the area. When Juan Diego showed his tilde to the bishop, the bishop dropped to his knees because under the Castillian roses was an indelible image of the Queen of Heaven, The bishop built a church on the site of Mary's appearance to Juan Diego. People still go there to see Juan Diego's tilde with the Queen of Heaven's painting of herself. As a result of this event, Mexico rapidly became a Catholic country.
In the fictional world of the 1817 Queen of Swords, this heroine openly practiced her Catholic faith.
For a few years, I wrote television reviews for a now defunct website called TVTome. When another company purchased the website, the rights to my reviews did not go to the new company, but returned to me. I never finished writing all my planned reviews for the Queen of Swords, but I would like to see those that I did write still out in the open. So, today, I will start adding my reviews of the series Queen of Swords, an earthly heroine Queen who honored the Queen of Heaven.
Stay tuned!
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