First appearance the day of Saturday, December 9 Juan Diego in 1531, early in the morning, went from his village to Santiago Tlatelolco. While passing the hill of Tepeyac, he suffered a harmonious singing of birds. Intrigued climbs to the top and there he sees a bright white cloud surrounded by a rainbow.
At the height of amazement, a voice called him affectionately calls, using the native language, the "Nahuatl" "Juanito, Juan Dieguito!" And here he saw a beautiful lady coming towards him and tell him: "Listen, my son, my baby, Juanito, where are you going?"
Juan Diego answered: "Lady and my baby, I gotta go in your house [temple] of Mйxico-Tlatilolco to listen to the things of the Lord to teach us our priests, delegates of Our Lord."
The Lord then said: Know and keep you in mind, the smallest of my children, I am the ever Virgin Holy Mary, Mother of the true God for whom we live, the Creator is everywhere, the Lord of Heaven and Earth. You will have much merit and reward for hard work and with whom you do what you recommend. See, that my и office, the smallest my son, go and do everything you can ciт.
The Virgin asked Juan Diego to go to the Bishop of Mexico City, to inform him of his wish that on that hill is a small church built by where she would have given aid and protection to all Mexicans.
Juan Diego agrees immediately after and respectfully greeted the Lady went to the bishop's palace. This was done a long wait until the bishop, Juan de Zumarraga, received him, but after heard the story did not give him credit, and then dismissed him. So Juan Diego, disconsolate and resumed his way back.
Second appearance
Towards evening of that On Saturday 9 December, Juan Diego comes to the top of Tepeyac, and here he meets again the Blessed Virgin. Desolate inform the failure of his office, with typical expressions of his language Nahuatl, "Lady, the youngest of my daughters, my Girl: I've been where you have sent me to do what you asked me ... The Bishop received and graciously listened to me attentively, perт when I said I did not believe и seemed that my words ... I understood perfectly, by the way I talked, thinking that perhaps my и an invention. .. maybe not a и your order ... " And Juan Diego then please contact one person more capable than him, more important, because could more easily convince the bishop. But the Lady
confirmed his choice, saying
"Listen my son, my baby, know that many are my servants and messengers that I will engage to communicate my message and my will. But I pray a lot, my son , the smallest of my children, and strongly ask you once again, tomorrow morning, you go to see the bishop to tell him my name and tell them my entire will, meaning that it must work because it makes the temple I ask him. And I tell them I am in person, the ever Virgin Holy Mary, Mother of God, you are sending. "
Juan Diego, full of wonder to realize that once again their the Virgin Mary has spoken to him, assured that the next day asking what he would do, then took leave of her and returned to his village.
third appearance
The next day, Sunday, December 10, after hearing Mass Juan Diego showed up for the second time to Bishop Zumarraga. These, given his insistence, told him that to give notice to Madam evidence of her being the Mother of God, and when Juan Diego came out that he was ordered below to get more information. The bishop in charge of
But once they arrive at Tepeyac, I lost sight of, and Juan Diego, arrived at the top of the hill for third time, he met the Holy Virgin.
This was waiting for him, then, after having heard what the Bishop asked, told him to come back tomorrow. But the next day, Monday, Juan Diego was unable to go to the appointment, because his uncle, Juan Bernardino, fell seriously ill and had to assist him.
Fourth appearance
martedм the morning of December 12, Juan Diego, the disease afflicted uncle's sick, he decided to call a priest, because it would help him in the supreme moment of death, all judged imminent.
The road was to pass to the Tepeyac, Juan Diego cercт but to avoid an encounter with the Holy Virgin and decided to take a different path. But then suddenly sees before him, and Mary with his usual sweetness says, "My son, my baby, where are you going?"
Juan Diego, ashamed for not meeting the day before, explaining his concern for the sick uncle, and feels in response to the Blessed Virgin that tender expression
"There are not here who am your dear mother?" Grieve not for nothing. "
comforting Maria assures him that his uncle had already healed. Then asks him to climb the hill of Tepeyac, where he could pick up some flowers to take to the Bishop. Juan Diego obeyed promptly, and actually found some beautiful Castilian roses, what inexplicable in that season, when he was just getting started in the winter! This raises
to pick them up, the system in the front of his cloak (mantle rustic vegetable fiber), and hurried to the bishop's palace. Once in front of the bishop, before he opens his cloak, and what was his astonishment and when present in the poor tissue miraculously materializes the image of the Blessed Virgin!
At this point the Bishop, stunned by the miracle of the roses and the miraculous image, which falls to his knees, and with him the other people who were present. And 'This is the famous image of the Virgin of Guadalupe that we all know, and that has been preserved intact to this day.
Miracle too, because these plant tissues, used by the poor Indians, after a few years decay. И and only one of the many mysteries of Guadalupe event that - despite current and sophisticated scientific research - are inexplicable.
The apparition to Juan Bernardino
A fifth appearance is evidenced by the uncle of Juan Diego, Juan Bernardino, who was seriously ill as mentioned above. He saw the Holy Virgin as she lay in her poor bed, and she was miraculously healed.
The Holy Virgin appeared to him saying his name was "Holy Mary of Guadalupe, Juan Bernardino, and also announced his desire to be built a temple from where you would come to meet the needs of the Mexican people.
The appearance in the sixteenth century, the "Virgen Morena" to the Indian Juan Diego and 'an event that has left a profound mark on the religiositа and Mexican culture. The basilica, where it is kept today and the miraculous image 'was inaugurated in 1976. Three years later, and 'was visited by Pope John Paul II, from the balcony of the facade on which are written in golden letters the words of Our Lady to Juan Diego: "No estoy yo aqui que soy tu Madre?" He greeted the many thousands of Mexicans converged at Tepeyac, in the same place in 1990, he beatified the seer Juan Diego, who was eventually declared a saint in 2002. What had happened in that distant sixteenth century in Mexico? With the landing of the Spaniards in the lands of Latin America had begun the long agony of a people who had achieved a high degree of social and religious progress. On August 13, 1521 had marked the decline of this civilization, when Tenochtitlan, the proud capital of the Aztec world, was sacked and destroyed.
The tragedy that has accompanied the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, on the one hand provides the complete downfall of the kingdom of the Aztecs and the other the appearance of a new culture and civilization originated from the combination between winners and losers. E 'in this context, ten years later, must be seen the apparition of the Virgin to a poor Indian named Juan Diego near Mexico Cities.
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