Guillermo Schulenburg

Guillermo Schulenburg Prado, often referred to simply as Guillermo Schulenburg, was the abbot of the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City from 1963 to 1996. He was the subject of a scandal in 1996, during the beatification of St. Juan Diego, because he opposed Juan Diego's canonization saying that it would be "recognition of a cult [Sullivan, Kevin. "Myth Versus Miracle. Debate Rages Over Canonization." Washington Post Foreign Service, February 5 2002 [http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/religion/myth.htm] , accessed 2 December 2006] . He was also quoted by the magazine Ixthus as saying that Juan Diego was "a symbol, not a reality. [Daily Catholic. December 7, 1999. [www.dailycatholic.org/issue/archives/1999Dec/232dec7,vol.10,no.232txt/dec7nv4.htm] , accessed November 30, 2006] " The then-80-year-old Abbot Schulenberg retired one month after the scandal [Dillon, Sam. "Doubting Keeper of Mexico's Guadalupe Shrine is Stepping Down." New York Times, 8 September 1996, p. 19]

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