An artist has used artificial intelligence to create “the most realistic image” of a teenage Virgin Mary before she gave birth to Jesus.
The tech expert said he reconstructed the face of the Virgin Mary after she mysteriously appeared on a piece of cloth more than 700 years ago in Mexico.
Miguel Ángel Omaña Rojas, from Mexico, said he spent weeks studying the intricate facial features as they appeared in the original picture of the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe.
The Daily Mail reports that he analyzed her facial structure, skin tone, and expression to “capture gestures and expressions in a dynamic way.”
The tech expert then used his artificial intelligence models—which had previously been trained to study large sets of data about human faces and bodies—to recreate the lifelike photos.
He said in a YouTube video: “This is the most faithful approximation that artificial intelligence was able to carry out.”
The Virgin of Guadalupe, also known as the Our Lady of Guadalupe, is a Catholic title given to Mary, mother of Jesus which has been linked to her mysterious supernatural appearance to a Mexican peasant named Juan Diego.
Catholics believe that Mary left a miraculous image of her appearance on his cactus fiber cloak, which still exists today in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.
The picture of Mother Mary on the cloak depicts golden rays of light shining behind her, representing the sun.
It comes after artificial intelligence revealed what could be the true face of Jesus after analyzing the mysterious Shroud of Turin.
Scientists made a shocking new discovery saying the historic relic – a burial cloth claiming to show an imprint of Christ when he died – could be real.
Believers claim Jesus was wrapped in the shroud after he was crucified and that the markings left behind resemble his injuries from the cross.
