Today, December 12 — during the season of Advent — is the annual feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, an especially important day for Latino Catholics. But why is this day observed and what's the ...

Our Mama Mary’s apparitions in Mexico are among the most inspiring and enduring testimonies of the reality of our Lady’s presence and love, and God’s. From December 9-12, 1531, our Lady appeared to ...

When I was a senior in college, I went on a pilgrimage to the Mexican martyr sites that ended with a visit to the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The entire trip was transformative for me. The visit ...

St. Juan Diego’s tilma is preserved intact 493 years later in the Basilicam of Our Lady of Guadalupe, located at the foot of Tepeyac Hill, attracting millions of pilgrims who come to venerate the ...

LOS ANGELES—For Catholics in Los Angeles, the feast of St. Juan Diego on Dec. 9 will be a double homecoming. The return of the Tilma of Tepeyac, the fragment of the saint's cloak that bears the image ...

Our Lady of Guadalupe is a symbol of faith, culture and identity for many Mexicans and Latin Americans and, in turn, has crossed borders occupying a very special place in the hearts of Latinos living ...

Colorful and jolly as are most Roman Catholic festivals in Latin countries, they might have seemed sedate beside one which began last week at the Basilica of Guadalupe near Mexico City. There were ...

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The word awesome has lost its zing. Seeing an apparition of Mary, then having her grow roses in the middle of winter to prove it to the archbishop, then converting 9 million Aztecs within seven years.

In Photo: : The original picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe (also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe) shown in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. The Catholic Church considers the image ...