Editing Our Lady of Guadalupe (section)

===The crown ornament===
[[File:Virgen_de_Guadalupe_con_las_cuatro_apariciones_(Juan_de_Sáenz)_Detalle_(01).JPG|thumb|right|250px|Virgen de Guadalupe con las cuatro apariciones by Juan de Sáenz (Virgin of Guadalupe with the four apparitions by Juan de Sáenz), {{circa|1777}}, at the [[Museo Soumaya]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/virgen-de-guadalupe-con-las-cuatro-apariciones-y-una-vista-del-santuario-del-tepeyac/TwHJIBpVfLoRXg|title=Virgen de Guadalupe con las cuatro apariciones y una vista del Santuario de Tepeyac|website=[[Google Arts & Culture]]}}</ref>]]
The image had originally featured a 12-point crown on the Virgin's head, but this disappeared in 1887–88. The change was first noticed on February 23, 1888, when the image was removed to a nearby church.{{sfn|Poole|2006|p=60}} Eventually a painter confessed on his deathbed that he had been instructed by a clergyman to remove the crown. This may have been motivated by the fact that the gold paint was flaking off of the crown, leaving it looking dilapidated. But according to the historian [[David Brading]], "the decision to remove rather than replace the crown was no doubt inspired by a desire to 'modernize' the image and reinforce its similarity to the nineteenth-century images of the Immaculate Conception which were exhibited at Lourdes and elsewhere... What is rarely mentioned is that the frame which surrounded the canvas was adjusted to leave almost no space above the Virgin's head, thereby obscuring the effects of the erasure."{{sfn|Brading|2001|p=307}}

A different crown was installed to the image. On February 8, 1887, a [[Papal bull]] from [[Pope Leo XIII]] granted permission a [[Canonical Coronation]] of the image, which occurred on October 12, 1895.<ref>''Enciclopedia Guadalupana'', p. 267 (vol. II)</ref>