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Dec 10, 2013 · The year was 1531, 39 years after Columbus “discovered” America, ten years after Cortés led the conquest * of the Aztec empire at Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) and seven years after Franciscan missionaries began ministering to the locals, including Juan Diego, who was among the first to be baptized a Catholic. Fifty-seven-year-old Juan was a ...
Dec 9, 2021 · Juan Diego was born in 1474—long before the Aztec Empire met its match in Hernan Cortes in the 1520s, and even before the subsequent evangelization of the region by Franciscan missionaries. His native name, Cuauhtlatoatzin , means “He who talks like an eagle,” an appellation both curious and significant, as eagles were creatures of ...
Jul 31, 2002 · Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (1474-1548) photo . St Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (1474-1548). Little is known about the life of Juan Diego before his conversion, but tradition and archaelogical and iconographical sources, along with the most important and oldest indigenous document on the event of Guadalupe, "El Nican Mopohua" (written in Náhuatl with Latin characters, 1556, by the Indigenous ...
Der Bischof dachte, Juan Diego beabsichtige, unter dem Mantel des Christentums die alten Kulte weiter zu pflegen und zeigte sich skeptisch. Bei einer weiteren Erscheinung an selber Stelle drei Tage später erhielt Juan Diego von Maria den Auftrag, an einer bestimmten Stelle am Berg Rosen zu pflücken und dem Bischof als Beweis zu bringen.
15) and the recently converted Indian, Juan Diego, its "messenger" as he is described by ElNican Mopohua, themost important indigenous document on the event of Guadalupe (the recent edition of the book by Fidel González Fernández – Eduardo Chávez Sánchez - José Luis Guerrero Rosado, El encuentro de la Virgen de Guadalupe y Juan Diego ...
Jul 31, 2002 · Consequently Guadalupe and Juan Diego have a deep ecclesial and missionary meaning and are a model of perfectly inculturated evangelization. 4. " The Lord looks down from heaven, he sees all the sons of men " ( Ps 33:13), we recited with the Psalmist, once again confessing our faith in God, who makes no distinctions of race or culture.
The image shows no sign of deterioration after 450 years! The tilma or cloak of Juan Diego on which the image of Our Lady has been imprinted, is a coarse fabric made from the threads of the maguey cactus. This fiber disintegrates within 20-60 years! There is no under-sketch, no sizing and no protective over-varnish on the image.
