Arturo Coral

Arturo Coral-Folleco
Director y Jefe-Editor de Ipi Times
Academia de Ciencia de Paris y Créteil, Francia

Arturo Coral-Folleco
Director and Chief Editor of Ipi Times
Academy of science in Paris and Creteil, France

Artur Coral fue un humilde estudiante en su primer año de estudios en la escuela pública de Ipiales. El se gradúo de Bachiller en 1973. Coral obtuvo su diploma en INGENIERIAELECTRONICA Artur Coral-Folleco: Doctor en Ciencias Bio-Médicas de las Academias de Ciencias de París y Créteil, Francia. Artur Coral-Folleco como Director y jefe editor de su propia Empresa de Publicaciones en Nueva York, USA.

Artur Coral was a humble student in his first year of studies in the public school of Ipiales. he graduated of Bachelor in 1973. Coral got his diploma in electronicengineering Artur Coral-Folleco: Doctor in Bio-Medical Sciences of the academies of Sciences of Paris and Creteil, France. Artur Coral-Folleco is a Director and Chief editor of his own publications company in New York, USA. He has written about Ipiales, but especially he plays in his profession.

Historians and scientists are at a loss to explain this fabulous image on the wall of a SouthAmerican cave. It may forever remain an enigma.
Back in the eighteenth century, María Mueses de Quiñones, an indian woman from the village of Potosi, Colombia, often walked the six miles between her village and the neighbouring one of Ipiales. One day in 1754 as she was making the journey, she approached the place called Las Lajas (the Rock Slabs), where the trail passes through a deep gorge of theGuaitara River. Maria never liked this part of the trail. There were rumours a cave in the Lajas was haunted. Superstitions lingered amongst the converted Christian indians.

In the indian way, she was carrying her daughter Rosa, a deaf-mute, on her back. And by the time she had climbed to the Lajas she was weary and sat on a rock to rest. The child got down from her back to play. Next thing Rosawas by the cave shouting: “Mummy, there is a woman in here with a boy in her arms!” Maria was beside herself with the fright. For this was the first time she had heard her daughter speak. She did not see the figures the girl was talking about, nor did she want to. She grabbed the child and hastened on to Ipiales.

When she told what happened nobody took her seriously at first. However, as thenews spread some asked if maybe it was true. After all, the child was now able to speak. A few days later the child Rosa disappeared from home. After looking everywhere the anguished Maria guessed it: her daughter must have gone to the cave. She often said that the woman was calling her. Maria ran to Las Lajas to find  her daughter kneeling in front of a splendid woman and playing affectionately with a child who had come down from His mother’s arms to let the girl enjoy His divine tenderness. Maria fell to her knees before this beautiful spectacle; she had seen the Blessed Virgin. |

Fearful of ridicule, Maria kept quiet about the event. But frequently she and Rosa went to the cave to place wild flowers and candles in the cracks of the rocks. The months went by, with María and Rosakeeping their secret. Until one day the girl fell gravely ill and died. A distraught Maria decided to take her daughter’s body to the Lajas to ask the Lady to restore Rosa to life. Pressed by the sadness of Maria’s unrelenting supplications, the Blessed Virgin obtained Rosa’s resurrection from Her Divine Son. Overflowing with joy, Maria went home. It didn’t take long for a crowd to gather. Early nextmorning everyone went to Las Lajas, each wanting to check the details for themselves. |

That was when the marvellous picture of Our Lady on the wall of the grotto was discovered. Maria Muese de Quinones could not recall noticing it until then. The child Jesus is in Our Lady’s arms. On one side of Our Lady is Saint Francis; on the other is Saint Dominic. Her delicate and regal features are...