7 posted on 03/28/2009 9:18:36 AM PDT by Frank Sheed
(Fr. V. R. Capodanno, Lt, USN, Catholic Chaplain. 3rd/5th, 1st Marine Div., FMF. MOH, posthumously.)
That must be a ‘Europeanized’ version of the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The original shows Mary looking like an Aztec woman, all the better to help evangelize the native peoples.