Brother John M. Samaha, S.M. Various news reports in the past have suggested that the tilma (mantle, cloak) of St. Juan Diego depicting Our Lady of Guadalupe is phony. One opinion was a fake made in ...

Year after year, Juan Diego’s tilma is viewed by an ... close to Dec. 12 – the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico and the Americas. Around the world, throngs march ...

The Virgin of Guadalupe, whose shrine sits on what was once the outskirts of Mexico City, was one of the most revered ... appeared on the cloak of a 16th-century Nahua man, Juan Diego. And throughout ...

In 1531 a "Lady from Heaven" appeared to a humble Native American at Tepeyac, a hill northwest of what is now Mexico City ... hands rearranged the roses in Juan Diego’s tilma, which makes ...

In the Guadalupe event, God chose to give the miraculous ... A movement was launched more than a decade ago under the auspices of the Archdiocese of Mexico City to nominate Juan Diego as patron of lay ...

In 1531 a "Lady from Heaven" appeared to Saint Juan Diego ... to Our Lady of Guadalupe. Each year an estimated 10 million people visit her Basilica, making her Mexico City home the most popular ...

Our Lady of Guadalupe is a symbol of faith, culture and identity for many Mexicans and Latin Americans and, in turn, has crossed borders occupying a very special place in the hearts of Latinos ...