Syncretism and Historical Revisionism in the Promotion of Guadalupe Cult
The [X] portal reports on a 16th-century painting in Rome’s Church of San Vitale claimed as the “first image of Our Lady of Guadalupe painted in the Italian capital.” The article presents this artwork as a devotional treasure connected to the 1531 Tepeyac apparitions, attributing it to Jesuit artist Giovanni Battista Fiammeri circa 1550 based on missionary sketches. This uncritical promotion of the Guadalupe narrative exemplifies the neo-church’s systematic distortion of authentic Marian piety through historical revisionism and religious syncretism.









