Our Lady of Guadalupe appears to Juan Diego
1531 · Event
On the hill of Tepeyac the Virgin Mary reportedly appears to a Nahua convert and speaks in Nahuatl, leaving her image on his cloak — the foundation of Mexico's great devotion.
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