The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe marks the Catholic Church teaching that the Virgin Mary appeared to St. Juan Diego, an Indigenous Mexican, on a Tepeyac hill in present-day Mexico City in 1531.
suddenly there appeared the drawing of the precious Image of the ever-virgin Holy Mary, Mother of God, in the manner as she is today kept in the temple at Tepeyacac, which is named Guadalupe.
Mary's Basilica and in a procession that traveled the streets of downtown. The Virgin of Guadalupe occupies a special place in the culture and religious life of many Mexicans and Latinos in the ...