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The prayer to our Lady of Guadalupe, in referring to her as the “mystical rose” touches on an extraordinary event. The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to an Aztec Indian convert to Catholicism named Juan Diego on Tepayac Hill, near Mexico City on December 9, 1531.
She asked him to tell the local bishop that she would like a church to be built there in her honor. When the bishop, Juan de Zummaraga, a devout Franciscan, asked Juan Diego for a sign proving the authenticity of her request, Mary helped out in two very special ways!
First, she instructed Juan Diego to gather fresh Castilian roses not normally found in the rocky barren landscape of Tepayac Hill (and certainly not in the beginning of winter!) Then she had him carry them to the bishop in his tilma, (his cloak), instructing him not to open his cloak until he saw Zumarraga.
The bishop, a devout Franciscan was so moved when he saw Juan Diego this time, on December 12th, that he fell to his knees and granted our Lady’s request!
Not only was he amazed at the roses falling out of Juan Diego’s tilma. Even more incredible was the image he saw of Mary as our Lady of Guadalupe, imprinted on his cloak, with the appearance of a Mestiza woman (of both European and Native American descent), just as Juan Diego had described her!
Mary also miraculously cured Juan Diego’s uncle, Juan Bernardino from a serious illness that same day, telling him that the image on his nephew’s tilma pictured above should be known as “The Ever Virgin, Holy Mary of Guadalupe.”
The bishop put Juan Diego’s tilma with the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in his chapel until it was transferred to the shrine when it was built soon afterwards. The picture became the focus of much veneration and was responsible for the conversion of literally millions of Aztec Indians, among others, to Catholicism.
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