Our Lady of Guadalupe

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Our Lady of Guadalupe is a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with four Marian apparitions to Juan Diego and one to his uncle Juan Bernardino reported in December 1531 in Mexican territories under Spanish rule. 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 shrine is the most-visited Catholic shrine in the world and the world's third most-visited sacred site.

↻ synthesized from 5 sources

When

First attested
1531 CE
Attested period
1531 – 2020
Historical notes
Apparitions reported in December 1531; canonical coronation granted 1887; shrine raised to Minor Basilica status in 1976.

Relationships

manifested by
Mary, Virgin Mary
syncretized with
Tonantzin

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Sources

Source passages

“1548 Also in that year of 1531 appeared to Cuahtlatoatzin our beloved mother the Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico”

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“This has made the Virgin of Candelaria the second most widespread Marian devotion on the American continent, after the Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness saint of Mexico.”

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“Mexico - Our Lady of Guadalupe”

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“that are under the patronage of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe Diocesan Sanctuary of Our Lady of Guadalupe”

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“Mexicans: Our Lady of Guadalupe.”

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