Editing Our Lady of Guadalupe (section)

=== 20th century ===

Since then the Virgin of Guadalupe has been proclaimed "Queen of Mexico", "Patroness of the Americas", "Empress of Latin America", and "Protectress of Unborn Children" (the latter two titles given by [[Pope John Paul II]] in 1999).<ref name="mariologia.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.mariologia.org/aparicionesguadalupeespanol09.htm |title=Virgen de Guadalupe |publisher=Mariologia.org |access-date=August 13, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426045240/http://www.mariologia.org/aparicionesguadalupeespanol09.htm |archive-date=April 26, 2012 }}</ref><ref>[https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/629932/Our-Lady-of-Guadalupe Britannica.com]</ref>

On November 14, 1921, a bomb hidden within a basket of flowers and left under the tilma by an anti-Catholic [[secularist]] exploded and damaged the altar of the Basilica that houses the original image, but the tilma was unharmed. A brass standing crucifix, bent by the explosion, is now preserved at the shrine's museum and is believed to be miraculous by devotees.{{sfn|Brading|2001|p=314}}{{sfn|Poole|2006|p=110}}