As we continue to celebrate Mary in May, I have two new portraits of the Virgin from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection, which present her as she is seen in a miraculous image given to the Aztec peasant, Juan Diego, in an apparition on December 1531 in Guadalupe, Mexico. The pair of acrylic paintings of this beloved Mexican icon are the work of self-taught artistis, Lucas Lorenzo and his son, Jesus, from the village of Xalitla, halfway between Mexico City and Acapulco. They paint on masonite panels, using the brilliant colors and stylized motifs of local folk art imagery on amate paper, the Mesoamerican equivalent of papyrus. Family Patriarch Lucas gives us a naif rendition of the Virgin of Guadalupe, standing on a crescent moon supported by an angel, from the holy tilma cactus fibre cloak now on display at the pilgrimage shrine at Guadalupe. Jesus renders a more finished decorative image (left) in half-length format. The two new paintings of Mary can be viewed on the Lorenzo Family page in the Schools of Sacred Artists section. (John Kohan)