Powerful Prayer to Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, you who were chosen by Our Lady of Guadalupe as an instrument to show your people and the world that the ...

This was the day his spiritual godfather, Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, would become the church’s first indigenous American saint. The church makes saints of the dead to hold up as models for the ...

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.

Juan Diego is a saint because he imitated Our Lady's virtues of faith, hope, love, poverty chastity, obedience and humility.” Gloria Vincon, from St. Charles Church in San Diego, agrees.

Almost five centuries ago, the Virgin Mary appeared in Mexico to an Indigenous convert named Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin. She entrusted him with a mandate: that a church be built at the site of ...

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. The men ...

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 ...

Mattingly: The cloak worn by St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin made from rough cactus materials should have deteriorated after 15-30 years.

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 ...

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 ...