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SUMMARY:Our Lady of Guadalupe
DESCRIPTION:Our Lady of Guadalupe\nSaint of the Day for December 12\nClick to hear audio clip ► \nThe Story of Our Lady of Guadalupe\nThe feast in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe goes back to the 16th century. Chronicles of that period tell us the story. \nA poor Indian named Cuauhtlatohuac was baptized and given the name Juan Diego. He was a 57-year-old widower and lived in a small village near Mexico City. On Saturday morning\, December 9\, 1531\, he was on his way to a nearby barrio to attend Mass in honor of Our Lady. \nHe was walking by a hill called Tepeyac when he heard beautiful music like the warbling of birds. A radiant cloud appeared and within it stood a young Native American maiden dressed like an Aztec princess. The lady spoke to him in his own language and sent him to the bishop of Mexico\, a Franciscan named Juan de Zumarraga. The bishop was to build a chapel in the place where the lady appeared. \nEventually the bishop told Juan Diego to have the lady give him a sign. About this same time Juan Diego’s uncle became seriously ill. This led poor Diego to try to avoid the lady. The lady found Diego\, nevertheless\, assured him that his uncle would recover and provided roses for Juan to carry to the bishop in his cape or tilma. \nWhen Juan Diego opened his tilma in the bishop’s presence\, the roses fell to the ground and the bishop sank to his knees. On Juan Diego’s tilma appeared an image of Mary exactly as she had appeared at the hill of Tepeyac. It was December 12\, 1531. \n\nReflection\nMary’s appearance to Juan Diego as one of his people is a powerful reminder that Mary and the God who sent her accept all peoples. In the context of the sometimes rude and cruel treatment of the Indians by the Spaniards\, the apparition was a rebuke to the Spaniards and an event of vast significance for Native Americans. While a number of them had converted before this incident\, they now came in droves. According to a contemporary chronicler\, nine million Indians became Catholic in a very short time. In these days when we hear so much about God’s preferential option for the poor\, Our Lady of Guadalupe cries out to us that God’s love for and identification with the poor is an age-old truth that stems from the Gospel itself. \n\nOur Lady of Guadalupe is the Patron Saint of:\nThe Americas\nMexico
URL:https://www.thefranciscanfriars.org/event/our-lady-of-guadalupe/2017-12-12/
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