Our Lady of Guadalupe

originally published on December 12, 2020

Today the Church celebrates the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe and venerates the Blessed Virgin Mary under that title.

On December 9, 1531, a peasant named Juan Diego experienced the first of five apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Tepeyac Hill near present day Mexico City.

The beautiful, miraculous image of the Virgin of Guadalupe left on Juan Diego’s tilma is of a supernatural origin and character and cannot be explained by science.