History of our lady of guadalupe video

A venerated image on a cloak tilmahtli associated with the apparition is enshrined in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. The first apparition occurred on the morning of Saturday, December 9, Julian calendar , which is December 19 on the proleptic Gregorian calendar in present use. Juan Diego experienced a vision of a young woman at a place called the Hill of Tepeyac , which later became part of Villa de Guadalupe , in a suburb of Mexico City.

According to the accounts, the woman, speaking to Juan Diego in Nahuatl, his first language and the language of the former Aztec Empire , identified herself as the Mary, "mother of the very true deity". Not unexpectedly, the Archbishop did not believe Diego. Later the same day, Juan Diego saw the young woman again the second apparition , and she asked him to continue insisting.

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The latter instructed him to return to Tepeyac and to ask the woman for a truly acceptable, miraculous sign to prove her identity. Later that day, the third apparition appeared when Juan Diego returned to Tepeyac; encountering the same woman, he reported to her the Archbishop's request for a sign, which she consented to provide on the next day December In the early hours of Tuesday, December 12, as Juan Bernardino's condition deteriorated, Juan Diego journeyed to Tlatelolco in search of a Catholic priest to hear Juan Bernardino's confession and help minister to him on his deathbed.

To avoid being delayed by the Virgin and ashamed at having failed to meet her on Monday as agreed, Juan Diego chose another route around Tepeyac Hill, yet the Virgin intercepted him and asked where he was going fourth apparition ; Juan Diego explained what had happened and the Virgin gently chided him for not having made recourse to her.

She assured him that Juan Bernardino had now recovered and told him to gather flowers from the summit of Tepeyac Hill, which was normally barren, especially in the cold of December.

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Juan Diego obeyed her instruction and he found Castilian roses, not native to Mexico, blooming there. The next day, December 13, Juan Diego found his uncle fully recovered as the Virgin had assured him, and Juan Bernardino recounted that he also had seen her after praying at his bedside fifth apparition ; that she had instructed him to inform the Archbishop of this apparition and of his miraculous cure; and that she had told him she desired to be known under the title of "Guadalupe".

The Archbishop kept Juan Diego's mantle, first in his private chapel and then in the church on public display, where it attracted great attention. On December 26, , a procession formed to transfer the miraculous image back to Tepeyac Hill where it was installed in a small, hastily erected chapel.