Our Lady of Guadalupe
The Events of Guadalupe

Early on a cold Saturday morning (December 9, 1531), Juan Diego, baptized into the faith as an adult in 1523, was on his way to assist a Mass about two and a half miles from Tlatleloco, where there was a church and where the Spaniards had concluded their conquest of Mexico ten years earlier. Suddenly he heard beautiful music and a woman's voice calling to him from the top of Tepeyac Hill, which he was then passing. At the top he saw a beautiful woman who revealed that she was the Blessed Virgin. She instructed him to visit the bishop to tell him that a temple should be built in honor at the base of the hill.

Juan Diego went immediately to Bishop Juan de Zumarraga who received him kindly but was reluctant to believe the story. Juan Diego returned to the hill to report his failure and the Lady told him to return to the bishop repeating the request.

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