The latter instructed him to return to Tepeyac and to ask the woman for a truly acceptable, miraculous sign to prove her identity. The next day, Sunday, December 10, 1531, in the Julian calendar, Juan Diego spoke to the Archbishop a second time. Later the same day, Juan Diego saw the young woman again (the second apparition), and she asked him to continue insisting. Not unexpectedly, the Archbishop did not believe Diego. īased on her words, Juan Diego then sought the Archbishop of Mexico City, Juan de Zumárraga, to tell him what had happened. She was said to have asked for a church to be erected at that site in her honor. Īccording to the accounts, the woman, speaking to Juan Diego in Nahuatl, his first language and the language of the former Aztec Empire, identified herself as the Mary, "mother of the very true deity". Juan Diego experienced a vision of a young woman at a place called the Hill of Tepeyac, which later became part of Villa de Guadalupe, in a suburb of Mexico City. The first apparition occurred on the morning of Saturday, Decem( Julian calendar, which is December 19 on the (proleptic) Gregorian calendar in present use). Description of Marian apparitions Īccording to the Nican Mopohua, included in the 17th-century Huei tlamahuiçoltica, written in Nahuatl, the Virgin Mary appeared four times to Juan Diego, a Chichimec peasant, and once to his uncle, Juan Bernardino. The basilica is the most-visited Catholic shrine in the world, and the world's third most-visited sacred site. Pope Leo XIII granted the image a decree of canonical coronation on February 8, 1887, and it was pontifically crowned on October 12, 1895. Our Lady of Guadalupe ( Spanish: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe), also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe ( Spanish: Virgen de Guadalupe), is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus associated with a series of five Marian apparitions to a Mexican peasant named Juan Diego and his uncle, Juan Bernardino, which are believed to have occurred in December 1531.Ī venerated image on a cloak ( tilmahtli) associated with the apparition is enshrined within the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Mexico and the Americas (2000 by Pope John Paul II)Ī pregnant woman, eyes downcast, hands clasped in prayer, clothed in a pink tunic robe covered by a cerulean mantle with a black sash, emblazoned with eight-point stars eclipsing a blazing sun while standing atop a darkened crescent moon, a cherubic angel carrying her trainġ2 December (Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe)ĭetail of the face, showing the discoloration on the top part of the head, where a crown is said to have been present at some point, now obscured by an enlarged frame for unknown reasons Octo( canonical coronation granted by Pope Leo XIII)īasilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Tepeyac Hill, Mexico City, Mexico This article is about the Mexican Marian title.
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