PART I: Article 1 of 3

(1) This Icon has “the true face of The Blessed Virgin Mary” the Mother of God. It was originally painted by Saint Luke when Mary was on earth.

By the Grace of God, we are able to offer you the most authentic and most beautiful portrait of the Mother of God in the world. Our Lady’s beautiful face in this Icon is the alleged, real face of Mary, the Mother of God.

Saint Luke the Evangelist painted his Icon of Mary, when Mary was in Saint John the Apostle’s home, with her “earthly face” about the year 60. Saint Luke painted the portrait on a three foot wide by five foot long thick cedar slab, which was the top of a table that Jesus made in Saint Joseph’s workshop that Mary had brought to Saint John the Apostle’s home in Ephesus. The Icon was allegedly found by Saint Helena in a cave in Jerusalem with the True Cross in the year 326.

The title of Saint Luke’s Icon is Salus Populi Romani (which means “Protectoress of the Roman People”) and is the only Icon of the child Jesus and Mary, in Papal Basilicas, attributed to Saint Luke. Saint Luke’s Icon has been in Rome, in the finest chapel, in Saint Mary Major Papal Basilica, legendarily – for almost 1,700 years. (click on the Saint Mary Major Papal Basilica photo at left to enlarge images of Saint Lukes Icon and Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces.)

Saint Luke’s Icon is shown in this photograph on the left, taken on The Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima, May 13, 1999, with “Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces” Original Icon at the altar during mass, in the first, the largest and most important Basilica of Mary in the world, Saint Mary Major Papal Basilica.

In the year 2003, Pope John Paul II commissioned a replica of Saint Luke’s Icon, the first Icon in the world, “Protectoress of the Roman People,” which resembles “Our Lady Mediatrix Icon,” specifically created to travel continuously throughout the world and to be at all of The World Youth Days Celebration masses.

Mystic and world-renowned Visionary, Josyp Terelya is the only Marian visionary in the world who is an accomplished, master fine art painter. Josyp saw the Blessed Virgin Mary 7 times (when she miraculously saved him, which is very well documented, and in Hrushiv). He has painted the imprinted, glorified, alleged “Heavenly Face of Mary” using “Mary’s earthly face” that Saint Luke painted as a guide on this extremely precious Icon Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces®. (click on the photo at right to enlarge the picture of Josyp Terelya painting the Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces® Icon.)

All of the features of “Mary’s beautiful Heavenly Face” in this Icon are identical to, and are fully corroborated by, the description all six Medjugorje Visionaries gave – who have each seen “Mary’s Heavenly Face” hundreds of times for many years. Five of the six visionaries are shown in this photograph, taken during the first year of the apparitions which began on June 25th 1981 in Medjugorje, Yugoslavia and have been ongoing for over twenty years. Vicka, (the visionary who received and asked the Blessed Mother to bless the rosary and scapular of Marie’s friend who, when Mary blessed the rosary and scapular, Louis De Monfort appeared to in a dream and foretold the creation and coming of the Mary Mediatrix Icon) is the oldest, most gifted, and the most spirited of the 6 visionaries and is shown on the left. Numerous reports of spiritual and physical healings have come as a result of Vicka’s praying over pilgrims.

The 13 features all six visionaries wrote about that are also in this Miraculous Icon are: “Mary’s face is rather long and oval, she has a light color brow.” (Mary’s “light color brow” is “the light color Dove of the Holy Spirit” indelibly aglow on Mary’s brow in heaven, and subtly shown on this Icon “Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces®.” This shows that this sacred Icon has the alleged “true, real Heavenly Face of Mary” which is repeatedly evidenced by all 7 Visionaries. As written in the Bible: “The angel said to her [Mary] ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you…’” in the Gospel of Saint Luke, Chapter 1, Verse 35)

They also wrote, “her eyebrows are thin and black, her eyelashes are delicate, she has rosy cheeks, her lips are reddish color.” (In the Icon, Our Lady’s “reddish color lips” are puckered in loving kiss for you.) The Visionaries also wrote: “Mary has a veil which covers her head, shoulders, and complete body, Mary’s ears are never visible, her dress falls freely, and is up to the beginning of her neck, her sleeves reach to her palms, her eyes are blue.” ¹ (Seemingly miraculous, Mary’s beautiful “blue eyes” in the Icon are always looking directly at you. Wherever you move Mary’s eyes in the Icon are always following you. She is always watching over you, her very precious child.) As “Mediatrix of All Graces”, she gives you All of God’s Graces according to your needs. (click on the photo at left to enlarge the picture of Our Lady, Mediatrix of All Graces® Icon)

1. From Father Janko Bubalo’s book, “A Thousand Encounters with the Blessed Virgin Mary in Medjugorje” (1985) and his “1992 Survey on the first 11 years of the Apparitions”.

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