Washington, Mar. 31 : During her recent visit to Mexico, U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unexpected stop at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe and left a bouquet of white flowers "on behalf of the American people," after asking who painted the famous image.

Mary miraculously imprinted the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe on the tilma, or cloak, of St. Juan Diego in 1531. The image has numerous unexplainable phenomena, such as the appearance on Mary's eyes of those present in the room when the tilma was opened and the image's lack of decay.

According to Politico, after observing it for a while, Clinton asked "who painted it?" to which Msgr. Monroy responded "God!"

The version in the Mexican press is yet more cringe-inducing: After being told it was an apparition, Clinton apparently persisted, asking, "But who painted the painting, the roses," before being informed again that God was the artist in question. (ANI)