E very December 9th, the Catholic Church commemorates Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, the humble Mexican farmer chosen to deliver the message of love from the Virgin of Guadalupe.On his special ...

Salvador Suarez, a 37-year-old shoe salesman, traveled all night on a bus from his village in western Mexico and entered the Basilica of Guadalupe at 6 a.m.

The following is the text of the Pope's homily from the canonization Mass of St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin in Mexico City on July 31.

Pope John Paul II proclaimed Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin the Roman Catholic Church's first indigenous American saint Wednesday and, in a colorful Mass blending Aztec and European traditions ...

The sequence when the Virgin offers Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin reassurance, “Am I not here, who am your mother?” is paired with the crucifixion passage in St. John’s Gospel, when Jesus tells ...

St. Juan Diego de Cuauhtlatoatzin, whose feast day is today, is someone I have met. I am thinking today of some of the men I knew in the state prison where I volunteered and later worked.

Cuauhtlatoatzin and his wife welcomed them and responded quickly to the message of salvation through ... Juan Diego is a saint because he imitated Our Lady's virtues of faith, hope, love ...

On the early morning of Dec. 9, 1531, an peasant named Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin saw a vision of a 15-year-old girl surrounded by light. She asked him to have a church built in her honor at that ...

Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, also known as Juan Diego (1474–1548) was said to have been visited by the Virgin Mary on four separate occasions in 1531 at the hill of Tepeyac, near Mexico City.

The cloak worn by St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin was made from rough cactus materials from central Mexico, and it should have deteriorated after 15-30 years.. But this "tilma" remains intact, and ...

The cloak worn by St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin was made from rough cactus materials from central Mexico, and it should have deteriorated after 15-30 years. But this "tilma" remains intact, and ...