Religious jewelry miraculously appears in a three-page R. Crumb comic in the pages of the latest New Yorker.  Look to the right of the panel to see Aline Kominsky-Crumb sporting a Virgin of Guadalupe bolo tie while visiting Manhattan last month.

Devotees of illuminated manuscripts know that the appearance of a Robert Crumb cartoon is in event in itself, so hie thee to a magazinery and check it out in the Feb. 13-20 2006 New Yorker!

But what is this Virgin of Guadalupe?  A miracle, or at least that's what many believe--it is an image of the Virgin Mary that materialized on a piece of cloth after Mary appeared in a vision to Juan Diego in 1531. 

Since then, the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe has become a cultural icon in Mexico and beyond.  In the picture below, for example, Our Lady of Guadalupe communes with the leading religious icon of the United States--

Saint Elvis!