Presentation offered on Our Lady of Guadalupe

A lecture on the meaning and symbolism of the Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe will be offered  from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, at the Chancery office at 805 Northshore Dr. in Knoxville. A $ 5.00 donation per person is requested. Free for clergy and religious.

Ernesto Vega’s presentation will include the anthropological, historical, psychological, mythological, sociological, geographic, philosophic, linguistic, spiritual, cosmic, and theological aspects surrounding the event of the apparitions of the Mother of God to St. Juan Diego. Mr. Vega has a Master’s Degree in marital and family therapy from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Spanish from St. John’s Seminary, in Camarillo, Calif. He has served as house Director of Guadalupe House, a formation facility for seminarians in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. In 1995 he spent several weeks in Mexico City, researching the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Mr. Vega has studied with Monsignor Jose Luis Guerrero, who was appointed by the Cardinal Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada to form  part of the team that appeal to the Holy See for the canonization of St. Juan Diego.

For more information, please call the Office of Hispanic Ministry at 865 637-4769.