Folk Art Retablo Saint Juan Diego San Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin Indigenous Peoples Garlick

Title: "San Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin - The Eagle that Talks." Our Lady of Guadalupe is the title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a series of five Marian apparitions in December 1531 and a venerated image on a cloak enshrined within the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.  San Juan Diego, a native of Mexico and the first Catholic indigenous saint from the Americas, was granted four apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 1531 on the hill of Tepeyac. The Basilica at the foot of Tepeyac, has the cloak of San Juan Diego on which an image of the Virgin was impressed, and which carried Castilian roses, each event a miraculous pledge of the authenticity of the apparitions. (The "Guadalupe Event"). St. John Paul II referred to the Guadalupe Event as "a model of evangelization perfectly inculturated." The veneration of Our Lady of Guadalupe is worldwide. San Juan Diego is the patron saint of indigenous peoples. "We ask Our Lady, who appeared to you as your Mother and Mothe