One Saturday in 1531 at the beginning of December, an Indian named Juan Diego, went very early in the town where he lived in Mexico City to attend his catechism classes and to hear the Holy Mass. When he arrived at the hill called Tepeyac, he woke up and heard a voice calling him by his name.
He climbed to the summit and saw a Lady of superhuman beauty, whose dress was bright as the sun, who with very kind and attentive words said: "Juanito: the smallest of my children, I am the always Virgin Mary, Mother of the true God, through whom one lives, I wish that a temple be built here for me to show and lavish all my love, compassion, help and defense to all the inhabitants of this earth and to all those who invoke me and in Trust me, go to the Bishop and tell him I want a temple on this plain, go and put all your effort into it. "
From returning to his village Juan Diego met again with the Virgin Mary and explained what happened. The Virgin asked him to go back to the bishop the next day and repeat the message. This time the bishop, after hearing Juan Diego told him that he should go and tell the Lady to give him some sign to prove that she was the Mother of God and that it was his will that a temple be built for him.
On his return, Juan Diego found Maria and told her the facts. The Virgin ordered him to return the next day to the same place because there he would give him the signal. The next day Juan Diego could not return to the hill because his uncle Juan Bernardino was very sick. The dawn of December 12, Juan Diego hurried away to get a priest to his uncle because he was dying. When he arrived at the place where he was to meet the Lady, he preferred to take another path to avoid it. Suddenly Maria came out to meet him and asked where she was going.
The embarrassed Indian explained what was happening. The Virgin told Juan Diego not to worry, that his uncle would not die and that he was already healthy. Then the Indian asked him for the sign that he should take to the bishop. Maria told him to climb to the top of the hill where he found roses of fresh Castilla and putting the tilma, cut as many as he could and took them to the bishop.
Once before Monsignor Zumarraga Juan Diego unfolded his blanket, roses fell to the ground and on the tilma was painted with what is now known as the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Seeing this, the bishop took the holy image to the Greater Church and built a hermitage in the place that the Indian had indicated.
Pius X proclaimed her as "Patroness of all Latin America", Pius XI of all the "Americas", Pius XII called her "Empress of the Americas" and John XXIII "The Celestial Missionary of the New World" and "the Mother of the Americas. "
The image of the Virgin of Guadalupe is venerated in Mexico with great devotion, and the miracles obtained by those who pray to the Virgin of Guadalupe are extraordinary.
He climbed to the summit and saw a Lady of superhuman beauty, whose dress was bright as the sun, who with very kind and attentive words said: "Juanito: the smallest of my children, I am the always Virgin Mary, Mother of the true God, through whom one lives, I wish that a temple be built here for me to show and lavish all my love, compassion, help and defense to all the inhabitants of this earth and to all those who invoke me and in Trust me, go to the Bishop and tell him I want a temple on this plain, go and put all your effort into it. "
From returning to his village Juan Diego met again with the Virgin Mary and explained what happened. The Virgin asked him to go back to the bishop the next day and repeat the message. This time the bishop, after hearing Juan Diego told him that he should go and tell the Lady to give him some sign to prove that she was the Mother of God and that it was his will that a temple be built for him.
On his return, Juan Diego found Maria and told her the facts. The Virgin ordered him to return the next day to the same place because there he would give him the signal. The next day Juan Diego could not return to the hill because his uncle Juan Bernardino was very sick. The dawn of December 12, Juan Diego hurried away to get a priest to his uncle because he was dying. When he arrived at the place where he was to meet the Lady, he preferred to take another path to avoid it. Suddenly Maria came out to meet him and asked where she was going.
The embarrassed Indian explained what was happening. The Virgin told Juan Diego not to worry, that his uncle would not die and that he was already healthy. Then the Indian asked him for the sign that he should take to the bishop. Maria told him to climb to the top of the hill where he found roses of fresh Castilla and putting the tilma, cut as many as he could and took them to the bishop.
Once before Monsignor Zumarraga Juan Diego unfolded his blanket, roses fell to the ground and on the tilma was painted with what is now known as the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Seeing this, the bishop took the holy image to the Greater Church and built a hermitage in the place that the Indian had indicated.
Pius X proclaimed her as "Patroness of all Latin America", Pius XI of all the "Americas", Pius XII called her "Empress of the Americas" and John XXIII "The Celestial Missionary of the New World" and "the Mother of the Americas. "
The image of the Virgin of Guadalupe is venerated in Mexico with great devotion, and the miracles obtained by those who pray to the Virgin of Guadalupe are extraordinary.
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