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Examples
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The original tilma is on display in her Basilica in Mexico City.
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The original tilma is on display in her Basilica in Mexico City.
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The tilma was the target of a bomb once, while everything else was damaged, the image remained unharmed.
Archive 2006-10-15 Terry Nelson 2006
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The tilma was the target of a bomb once, while everything else was damaged, the image remained unharmed.
A question about the tilma of Guadalupe. Terry Nelson 2006
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Indeed I should say that the spirituality of which the tilma was the focus grew as much in spite of as because of the rapacious, often brutal Spanish conquest and colonization.
Archive 2005-12-01 Mike L 2005
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Indeed I should say that the spirituality of which the tilma was the focus grew as much in spite of as because of the rapacious, often brutal Spanish conquest and colonization.
The Empress of the Americas Mike L 2005
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The tilma is usually a piece of coarse rug -- a cheap woollen cloth of the country, called
The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850
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Because church leaders did not believe he had seen her, she instructed Juan Diego to gather a bouquet in his cloak, or tilma, and take them back with him.
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More importantly, her miraculous image on his tilma vindicated the Indian man before the Bishop.
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Mary on the tilma, or cloak, of St. Juan Diego in 1531.
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