Saint Juan Diego
A statue of Juan Diego and Bishop Zumárraga in front of a church in Los Angeles, California
Born	c. 1474 in Tlayacac, Cuauhtitlan, Mexico
Died	May 30, 1548 in Tenochtitlan, Mexico City, Mexico
Venerated in	Roman Catholicism
Beatified	April 9, 1990, Vatican, Rome by Pope John Paul II
Canonized	July 31, 2002, Basilica of Guadalupe, Mexico City, Mexico by Pope John Paul II
Major shrine	Basilica of Guadalupe, Mexico City, Mexico
Feast	December 9
Attributes	tilma
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For the actor, see Juan Diego (actor).

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He was canonized in the Roman Catholic Church on July 31, 2002, becoming the first indigenous American saint in the Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church (see Terminology below) is the Christian Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict XVI. It traces its origins and sees itself as the same Church founded by Jesus of Nazareth and maintained through Apostolic Succession from the Twelve... July 31 is the 212th day (213th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 153 days remaining. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... A Hupa man, 1923 The indigenous peoples of the Americas were the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those historical peoples. ... In traditional Christian iconography, Saints are usually depicted as having halos. ...

Juan Diego, according to the story generally accepted by Catholics, was born in 1476 to a peasant family of the Chichimeca nation. His birth name, Cuauhtlatohuac, is in the Nahuatl language and has been translated as "Talking Eagle". He was born and grew up in Cuautitlan, a city in the Aztec Empire, about 20 km north of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City). Events March 2 - Battle of Grandson. ... In a detail of Brueghels Land of Cockaigne (1567) a soft-boiled egg has little feet to rush to the luxuriating peasant who catches drops of honey on his tongue, while roast pigs roam wild: in fact, hunger and harsh winters were realities for the average European in the... The Chichimeca are a group of nomads in northern Mexico. ... Nahuatl ( [1] is a term applied to a group of related languages and dialects of the Aztecan [2] branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, indigenous to central Mexico. ... Cuautitlán was a village in the Aztec empire about 15 miles northwest of Tenochtitlán (later Mexico City). ... The word Aztec is usually used as a historical term, although some contemporary Nahuatl speakers would consider themselves Aztecs. ... Tenochtitlan, looking east. ... Country Mexico State Federal District Municipality Mexico City Founded Seat of the Government Capital of the Nation Head of government Marcelo Ebrard Area    - City km² Population    - City (2005) 8,720,916  - Density 5,741/km² Website: http://www. ...

The date of Cuauhtlatohuac's conversion to Catholicism is variously given as 1524 or 1525. He took the name "Juan Diego" and moved to Tolpetlac, closer to Tenochitlan and the Catholic mission that had been set up by the Franciscan friars. During a walk from his village to the city on December 12, 1531, he saw a vision of the Virgin Mary at the Hill of Tepeyac, who spoke to him in Nahuatl. She told him to build an abbey on the site, but when Juan Diego spoke to the Spanish bishop, Fray Juan de Zumárraga, the prelate did not believe him, asking for a miraculous sign. The Virgin told him to gather flowers from the hill, even though it was winter, when normally nothing bloomed. He found Spanish roses and presented these to the bishop. When the roses fell from his apron, an icon of the Virgin remained imprinted on the cloth. Events March 1, 1524/5 - Giovanni da Verrazano lands near Cape Fear (approx. ... Events January 21 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manzs mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. ... The Order of Friars Minor and other Franciscan movements are disciples of Saint Francis of Assisi. ... December 12 is the 346th day (347th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 19 days remaining. ... January 26 - Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake - thousands die. ... Gabriel delivering the Annunciation to Mary. ... Tepeyac or the Hill of Tepeyac, historically known by the names Tepeyacac and Tepeaquilla, is located inside Gustavo A. Madero, the northernmost delegación or borough of the Mexican Federal District. ... A mitre is used as a symbol of the bishops ministry. ... Juan de Zumárraga (1468 – 3 June 1548) was a Spanish Franciscan prelate and first bishop of Mexico. ... Clivia miniata A cluster of flowers (Clivia miniata) A flower, (<Old French flo(u)r<Latin florem<flos), also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). ... For other senses of this word, see winter (disambiguation). ... Species Between 100 and 150, see list A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa, and the flower of this shrub. ... Christ the Redeemer (1410s, by Andrei Rublev) An icon (from Greek , eikon, image) is an image, picture, or representation; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it, or by analogy, as in semiotics; in computers an icon is a symbol on the...

The church was built in 1531, and thereafter Spanish missionaries used the story of Juan Diego's vision to help convert millions of indigenous people in what had been the Aztec Empire. Our Lady of Guadalupe, as the Virgin Mary came to be known in this context, still underpins the faith of many Catholics in Mexico and the rest of Latin America, and she is now recognised as patron saint of America. But Juan Diego himself, who died on May 30, 1548, has also been revered by many people. January 26 - Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake - thousands die. ... Our Lady of Guadalupe Our Lady of Guadalupe or the Virgin of Guadalupe is a 16th century image, a Roman Catholic icon and Mexicos most popular religious image: Nobel laureate Octavio Paz is quoted as saying that the Mexican people, after more than two centuries of experiments, have faith... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... In several forms of the church of Christianity, but especially in Roman Catholicism, a patron saint has special affinity for a trade or group. ... World map showing the Americas The Americas are the lands of the Western hemisphere historically considered to consist of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions. ... May 30 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years). ... Events Mary I of Scotland sent to France Births September 2 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (died 1616) September 29 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1626) Francesco Andreini, Italian actor (died 1624) Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher, astronomer, and occultist (burned at the stake) 1600 (died 1600) Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general...

In 1987, Pope John Paul II beatified him and, shortly thereafter, miracles began to be attributed to him, starting with a healing on May 6. This sparked further investigation by Catholic authorities, and on July 31, 2002, the Pope declared Juan Diego a saint. 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Coat of Arms of Pope John Paul II. The Letter M is for Mary, the mother of Jesus, to whom he held strong devotion Pope John Paul II (Latin: ), (Italian: Giovanni Paolo II), born   (May 18, 1920 – April 2, 2005) reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from October... According to many religions, a miracle, derived from the old Latin word miraculum meaning something wonderful, is a striking interposition of divine intervention by God in the universe by which the ordinary course and operation of Nature is overruled, suspended, or modified. ... May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). ... July 31 is the 212th day (213th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 153 days remaining. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

Statue of Saint Juan Diego, Church of San Juan Bautista, Coyoacán, DF

Some (both Catholic and otherwise) have doubted the very existence of Juan Diego. The earliest written reference to him dates from 1648, in a publication by a Mexico City priest about Our Lady of Guadalupe. A 1649 publication in Nahuatl followed, referring to earlier Nahuatl sources that have not been found. In 1666, a formal Church inquiry gave authority to the traditions of Juan Diego. Skeptics believe that these sources, over a century after the events were supposed to have occurred, were actually part of an attempt by Catholic missionaries to bolster the legend of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which they were using to win the hearts of indigenous potential converts. In 1996, Guillermo Schulenburg, then abbot of the present Basilica of Guadalupe, wrote in a Jesuit publication that he considered Juan Diego symbolic, not historical, and that the image on the apron (now displayed in the church) was a painting. Schulenburg and some other Catholic clerics wrote a letter to the Vatican asking for a delay in the canonisation process, but they charge that the official investigators ignored the evidence that they presented. Statue of St. ... Statue of St. ... Location of Coyoacán within the Mexican Federal District Jardín Centenario Plaza Hidalgo Coyoacán (Place of the coyotes in Nahuatl) is one of the 16 delegaciones (boroughs) into which Mexicos Federal District is divided. ... The Mexican Federal District, known in Spanish as Distrito Federal (D.F.), is an area within Mexico that is not part of any of the Mexican states, but an independent self-governing city-state and the seat of the Federal Government. ... // Events January 17 - Englands Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Address, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War. ... Roman Catholic priests in traditional clerical clothing. ... // Events January 30 - King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is beheaded. ... 1666 is often called Annus Mirabilis. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Guillermo Schulenburg Prado, often referred to simply as Guillermo Schulenburg, was the abbot of the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City from 1963 to 1996. ... Exterior view of the modern Basilica. ... Seal of the Society of Jesus. ... The Mona Lisa is one of the most recognizable artistic paintings in the Western world. ...

Whether or not this charge is valid, it is true that many Mexicans see the canonization of Juan Diego as a symbolic victory in the movement for greater recognition of their heritage reflected in the Catholic religion; the Pope held a Mass that borrowed from Aztec traditions, including a reading from the Bible in Nahuatl. The Pope urged the Catholic Church in Mexico to be respectful of indigenous traditions and to incorporate them into religious ceremony when appropriate. Significant segments of Mexico's indigenous population are converting to Protestantism, and many feel that Catholic Eurocentrism may be turning them off. Indeed, many native groups objected to the Church's official depiction of the saint, charging that he was made to appear far too light-skinned, incongruously bearded, and altogether more European than Aztec. At the same time, the Pope urged fighters for indigenous rights to renounce violence. The Zapatista movement, who often uses images of Our Lady of Guadalupe, had previously done just that. This article discusses the Mass as part of Christian liturgy, in particular the form it has taken in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church. ... The word Bible refers to the canonical collections of sacred writings of Judaism and Christianity. ... Protestantism is one of three main groups currently within Christianity. ... Violence is any act of aggression and abuse which causes or intends to cause injury, in some cases criminal, or harm to persons, and (to a lesser extent) animals or property. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

See also

• Our Lady of Guadalupe

Our Lady of Guadalupe Our Lady of Guadalupe or the Virgin of Guadalupe is a 16th century image, a Roman Catholic icon and Mexicos most popular religious image: Nobel laureate Octavio Paz is quoted as saying that the Mexican people, after more than two centuries of experiments, have faith...

External links

• Biography from a Catholic site dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe
• Biography from the Holy See for Juan Diegos Canonization