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Meet Juan Diego! • Saints for kids. A carved wood relief depicting St. Juan Diego is seen at the San Diego Retreat house in Albuquerque, N.M. (CNS photo/Octavio Duran) LIVED: Juan Diego was an Indian born in Mexico in 1474; his Indian name, Cuauhtlatoatzin, means “the talking eagle.”. He and his wife were among the first converts to ...
Dec 11, 2023 · The life of St. Juan Diego. St. Juan Diego, painting by Miguel Cabrera (1695-1768). (Public domain) On Dec. 9, Roman Catholics celebrate St. Juan Diego, the indigenous Mexican Catholic convert whose encounter with the Virgin Mary began the Church’s devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe. In 1474, 50 years before receiving the name Juan Diego at ...
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- The Apparitions
- The Theology of The Tilma
- The One Who Spoke Like An Eagle
Juan Diego was an Aztec Indian, a member of the Chichimeca people who spoke the language Náhuatl and lived near modern-day Mexico City. The Aztec people of his heritage have a well-deserved reputation for absolute brutality. During the dreadful dedication of the great temple in Mexico City in 1487, for example, more than 80,000 men were sacrificed ...
These were a few of the primary religious figures that the Aztecs believed in: “deities” without love or mercy. Naturally, they feared their gods. Consider the fact that two of their important female deities didn’t even have faces. Women are the embodiment of compassion, tenderness, and personal relationship—yet in the Aztec worldview, such mercy h...
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 enormous importan...
On his way to church one day, Juan Diego encountered a beautiful young maiden at Tepeyac Hill, former site of an ancient temple to the awful “earth goddess” we read about earlier. To Juan’s eyes, this maiden must have looked familiar, yet very, very different. She was one of his own people, an Aztec of great standing judging by her attire. He would...
Our Lady gave Juan the requested sign. Castilian roses suddenly grew atop Tepeyac—a rose neither native to Mexico nor in season in December. The hill itself was in fact quite barren, not a place for roses at all. After Juan gathered these beautiful, perfect roses, the Lady arranged them in his tilma herself, and sent him on his way. When Juan arriv...
What happened after Juan Diego brought the image of Our Lady to the Bishop? 8 millionnative Mexicans converted to the Catholic faith. Devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe spread throughout Mexico and the world. Today the Shrine is the most visited Marian shrine in the world, bringing in millions of pilgrims every year. As for Juan Diego, he spent the ...
Mar 30, 2024 · Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, also known as Juan Diego ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˌxwanˈdjeɣo]; 1474–1548), was a Chichimec peasant and Marian visionary. He is said to have been granted apparitions of the Virgin Mary on four occasions in December 1531: three at the hill of Tepeyac and a fourth before don Juan de Zumárraga, then bishop of Mexico.
Saint Juan Diego was born in 1474 as Cuauhtlatoatzin, a native to Mexico. He became the first Roman Catholic indigenous saint from the Americas. Following the early death of his father, Juan Diego was taken to live with his uncle. From the age of three, he was raised in line with the Aztec pagan religion, but always showed signs of having a ...
