Visit the homepage for more information. – Brother John M. Samaha, S.M. The recent canonization of Saint Juan Diego elicited worldwide enthusiasm for the recognition of another Christlike lay person.

Juan Diego didn’t have much luck with the bishop ... In Egypt I talked with devout Muslims who, because of their reverence for the Virgin Mary, had no qualms about visiting Christian churches ...

By being visible on Juan Diego's tilma, Mary became imprinted in the deepest recesses of his heart -- and in the hearts of all who come to her." Our Lady of Guadalupe is not simply an image on the ...

was one of the most revered apparitions of the Virgin Mary in New Spain. Her image is believed to have miraculously appeared on the cloak of a 16th-century Nahua man, Juan Diego. And throughout the ...

Thanks to you, we know that the Blessed Virgin of Guadalupe is the mother ... I ask you, Saint Juan Diego, to ask Mary, our mother, to wrap me in her protective mantle, I beg for her love ...

And again tell him that I, in person, the ever-virgin Holy Mary, Mother of God, sent you.” Juan Diego replied: “Lady, my Child, let me not cause you affliction. Gladly and willingly I will go ...

honoring the Virgin Mary as she appeared in four visions before Indigenous Mexican convert St. Juan Diego in 1531. According to Britannica, the religious tradition recounts how Mary revealed ...

Catholics in Mexico are marking the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the day almost 500 years ago on which the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to an indigenous man near what is today ...