{"id":5808,"date":"2026-06-23T09:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rezaelrosario.org\/our-lady-of-guadalupe"},"modified":"2026-06-23T09:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:01:15","slug":"our-lady-of-guadalupe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rezaelrosario.org\/fr\/our-lady-of-guadalupe","title":{"rendered":"Our Lady of Guadalupe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rr-om\">\n<style>\n.rr-om{max-width:880px;margin:0 auto;font-family:Inter,system-ui,sans-serif;color:#1E2A36}\n.rr-om h1{font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;color:#1F4E79;text-align:center;font-size:2.1rem;margin:.4rem 0 .2rem}\n.rr-om .rr-sub{text-align:center;color:#8A6D1D;font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:1.15rem;margin:0 0 1.2rem}\n.rr-om .rr-lead{color:#344054;line-height:1.75;max-width:720px;margin:0 auto 1.2rem}\n.rr-om h2{font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;color:#1F4E79;font-size:1.45rem;border-bottom:2px solid #C9A227;padding-bottom:.35rem;margin:2.2rem 0 .9rem}\n.rr-om h3{font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;color:#1F4E79;font-size:1.1rem;margin:1.4rem 0 .5rem}\n.rr-om p{color:#344054;line-height:1.75}\n.rr-om .rr-card{background:#fff;border:1px solid #E6E1D8;border-radius:14px;box-shadow:0 4px 14px rgba(30,42,54,.06);padding:1.2rem 1.4rem;margin:0 0 1rem}\n.rr-om .rr-datos{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(auto-fit,minmax(240px,1fr));gap:10px;margin:.6rem 0}\n.rr-om .rr-dato{background:#F8F5EF;border:1px solid #E6E1D8;border-radius:10px;padding:.6rem .9rem;font-size:.95rem}\n.rr-om .rr-dato b{color:#1F4E79}\n.rr-om .rr-cita{background:#F8F5EF;border-left:3px solid #C9A227;padding:.8rem 1.1rem;border-radius:0 10px 10px 0;margin:1rem 0;font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;color:#41506b}\n.rr-om .rr-cita .rr-quien{display:block;font-family:Inter,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-size:.8rem;color:#8A6D1D;margin-top:.4rem;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.04em}\n.rr-om .rr-nota{background:#F3E7BD66;border:1px solid #E6D9A8;border-radius:10px;padding:.6rem .9rem;color:#6B5512;font-size:.92rem;margin:.4rem 0 .9rem}\n.rr-om .rr-btns{display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px;justify-content:center;margin:1.6rem 0}\n.rr-om .rr-btn{background:#1F4E79;color:#fff;border-radius:999px;padding:.6rem 1.2rem;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:.92rem}\n.rr-om .rr-btn:hover{background:#183B5C;color:#F3E7BD}\n.rr-om .rr-flor{background:linear-gradient(135deg,#1F4E79,#183B5C);border-radius:16px;padding:1.6rem 1.4rem;color:#fff;margin:2rem 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid #C9A22755}\n.rr-om .rr-flor h3{color:#F3E7BD;margin-top:0}\n.rr-om .rr-flor p{color:#E8EDF3}\n.rr-om .rr-flor a{display:inline-block;background:#C9A227;color:#1E2A36;border-radius:999px;padding:.7rem 1.5rem;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;margin-top:.6rem}\n.rr-om .rr-fuentes{font-size:.88rem;color:#667085;border-top:1px solid #E6E1D8;padding-top:1rem;margin-top:2rem}\n@media(max-width:560px){.rr-om h1{font-size:1.7rem}}\n<\/style>\n\n<h1>Our Lady of Guadalupe<\/h1>\n<p class=\"rr-sub\">The Mother who chose to remain at Tepeyac<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"rr-lead\">Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of the best-loved Marian devotions in the entire Catholic world. In December 1531 the Virgin Mary appeared to Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin on the hill of Tepeyac, near present-day Mexico City, and asked that a sacred house be built there where she could show her love, compassion, help and protection.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"rr-fig\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rezaelrosario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/nuestra-senora-de-guadalupe.jpg\" alt=\"Our Lady of Guadalupe on the tilma of Saint Juan Diego\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption>Our Lady of Guadalupe. Public domain (Wikimedia Commons).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<h2>Key facts<\/h2>\n<div class=\"rr-datos\">\n<div class=\"rr-dato\"><b>Feast:<\/b> 12 December<\/div>\n<div class=\"rr-dato\"><b>Place:<\/b> hill of Tepeyac, Mexico City<\/div>\n<div class=\"rr-dato\"><b>Seer:<\/b> Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin<\/div>\n<div class=\"rr-dato\"><b>Year:<\/b> 1531<\/div>\n<div class=\"rr-dato\"><b>Principal document:<\/b> Nican Mopohua<\/div>\n<div class=\"rr-dato\"><b>Sign:<\/b> the image imprinted on Juan Diego&#8217;s tilma<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Central message:<\/strong> Mary presents herself as a compassionate Mother who hears the weeping, sorrows and griefs of her children and leads them to God.<\/p>\n\n<h2>What is the Nican Mopohua?<\/h2>\n<p>The <em>Nican Mopohua<\/em> is the classic account of the apparitions of Holy Mary of Guadalupe to Saint Juan Diego. Its title is made up of the first two words of the text in the Nahuatl language and may be translated as <strong>\u00abHere it is recounted.\u00bb<\/strong> Tradition attributes it to the indigenous scholar Antonio Valeriano (16th century), and it was published by Luis Lasso de la Vega in 1649 within the <em>Huei tlamahui\u00e7oltica<\/em>. It is written with the poetic delicacy of Nahuatl: flowers, songs, the tenderness of a mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rr-nota\">The ancient text is in the public domain; modern translations may be under copyright. That is why here we offer a faithful summary with brief quotations, and a link to the full text on the website of the <a href=\"https:\/\/virgendeguadalupe.org.mx\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Basilica of Holy Mary of Guadalupe<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h2>History of the apparitions<\/h2>\n\n<h3>First apparition: Mary calls Juan Diego<\/h3>\n<p>On Saturday 9 December 1531, very early in the morning, Juan Diego was passing by the hill of Tepeyac on his way to catechism when he heard a beautiful singing, as of many birds. At the top of the hill he saw a Lady surrounded by light, who called him tenderly by his name.<\/p>\n\n<h3>The Virgin&#8217;s request<\/h3>\n<p>The Lady revealed to him who she was and asked that a \u00ablittle sacred house\u00bb (a temple) be built there, where she could show and give her love, her compassion, her help and her protection to all the inhabitants of this land.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Juan Diego before the bishop<\/h3>\n<p>Juan Diego went to the house of the bishop of Mexico, Friar Juan de Zum\u00e1rraga, and told him what he had seen and heard. The bishop listened to him kindly, but did not believe him: he asked him to come back another day.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Second apparition: the humility of Juan Diego<\/h3>\n<p>Juan Diego returned to Tepeyac saddened and begged the Virgin to send someone more important, \u00abknown, respected and esteemed,\u00bb because he was a small man, \u00aba cord, a little ladder of boards.\u00bb The Virgin, with sweetness, confirmed that she had chosen precisely him, and that it was necessary that he himself should carry out her request.<\/p>\n\n<h3>The sign asked for by the bishop<\/h3>\n<p>On the second visit, the bishop asked for a sign. The Virgin promised to give it to him the next day. But on that day Juan Diego did not come: his uncle Juan Bernardino had fallen gravely ill, and on Tuesday 12 December he set out at dawn to find a priest, going around the hill so as not to meet the Lady.<\/p>\n\n<h3>The words of consolation<\/h3>\n<p>The Virgin came out to meet him and, on learning of his anguish, addressed to him the most remembered words of the whole account, which for centuries have consoled the people of God:<\/p>\n<div class=\"rr-cita\">\u00abAm I not here, I who am your mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I not the source of your joy? Are you not in the hollow of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms? Do you need anything more?\u00bb\n<span class=\"rr-quien\">Nican Mopohua \u2014 words of the Virgin to Saint Juan Diego<\/span><\/div>\n<p>And she assured him that his uncle was already well. The Virgin also appeared to Juan Bernardino, healed him, and made known to him that her precious image should be called <strong>Holy Mary of Guadalupe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<h3>The sign of the roses<\/h3>\n<p>The Lady told Juan Diego to climb to the summit of the hill and cut the flowers he would find there. Although it was December and that spot yielded only thorns and prickly pears, Juan Diego found fresh, fragrant Castilian roses. He carried them in his tilma. The Virgin arranged them with her own hands and told him that this was the sign for the bishop.<\/p>\n\n<h3>The image on the tilma<\/h3>\n<p>Before the bishop, Juan Diego unfolded his tilma. The roses fell and, in the weave of maguey fibre, the image of the Virgin appeared imprinted just as she is venerated today: the Lady clothed in the sun, in an attitude of prayer, with a mestiza face and lowered eyes full of tenderness. The bishop, deeply moved, asked forgiveness and took the image first to his oratory and afterwards to the church.<\/p>\n\n<h3>The beginning of Guadalupan devotion<\/h3>\n<p>Soon the first chapel was raised at Tepeyac, and devotion spread throughout Mexico and all of America. Today the Basilica of Guadalupe is one of the most visited Marian shrines in the world. Saint Juan Diego was canonized by Saint John Paul II in 2002, and the Virgin of Guadalupe is venerated as <strong>Patroness of Mexico, Empress of America and Star of the first and of the new evangelization<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<h2>The Virgin Mary&#8217;s conversation with Saint Juan Diego<\/h2>\n<p>The Nican Mopohua preserves a dialogue of unique delicacy. We summarize its essential moments, with brief quotations:<\/p>\n<div class=\"rr-cita\">\u00abJuanito, the least of my children, where are you going?\u00bb\n<span class=\"rr-quien\">The Virgin calls Juan Diego with tenderness<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"rr-cita\">\u00abMy Lady, my Queen, my little Maiden: behold, I have now arrived\u2026\u00bb\n<span class=\"rr-quien\">Juan Diego answers with trusting humility<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"rr-cita\">\u00abKnow it, hold it for certain, my littlest son, that I am the perfect ever-Virgin Holy Mary, Mother of the truest God through whom one lives.\u00bb\n<span class=\"rr-quien\">The Virgin reveals who she is<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"rr-cita\">\u00abMuch do I wish, much do I desire that here they raise for me my little sacred house, where I will show\u2026 all my love, my compassion, my help and my protection.\u00bb\n<span class=\"rr-quien\">The request for the temple<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"rr-cita\">\u00abMy littlest son\u2026 it is altogether necessary that you yourself ask and help, and that through your mediation my will be fulfilled.\u00bb\n<span class=\"rr-quien\">Mary confirms her choice when Juan Diego feels unworthy<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The complete text, in its various translations, can be read on the website of the <a href=\"https:\/\/virgendeguadalupe.org.mx\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Insigne and National Basilica of Holy Mary of Guadalupe<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h2>The spiritual message of Guadalupe<\/h2>\n<p>The Guadalupan event still speaks to us today with simplicity:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcff <strong>Mary draws near to the little ones.<\/strong> She did not choose a palace, but a hill; not a powerful man, but a humble, newly baptized native.<br>\n\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f <strong>Mary speaks in the language of the people.<\/strong> She spoke to him in Nahuatl, with its flowers and its songs, and left her image with a mestiza face: a Mother who makes herself understood.<br>\n\ud83d\ude47 <strong>Mary does not despise humility.<\/strong> When Juan Diego feels he is a \u00ablittle ladder of boards,\u00bb she confirms it: I have chosen you.<br>\n\ud83c\udfe0 <strong>Mary asks for a house in which to listen and console<\/strong> \u2014 a place to show love, compassion, help and protection.<br>\n\u271d\ufe0f <strong>Mary leads to Christ and to the true God.<\/strong> She presents herself as Mother of the God through whom one lives: she never keeps anything for herself, she always leads to her Son.<br>\n\ud83e\uddf5 <strong>The tilma is a sign of maternal closeness:<\/strong> the Mother chose to remain imprinted on the poor mantle of one of her little children.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe<\/h2>\n<div class=\"rr-card\">\n<p>Holy Mary of Guadalupe,<br>\nMother of the true God through whom one lives:<br>\nreceive our pleas and lead us to your Son Jesus.<br>\nLook upon our sorrows, our labours and our hopes.<br>\nTeach us to trust, like Saint Juan Diego,<br>\nand to respond with humility to the will of God.<br>\nAmen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pray also the <a href=\"\/en\/marian-prayers\/\">Marian prayers<\/a> and prepare her feast (12 December) with devotion throughout Advent.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"rr-flor\">\n<h3>\ud83c\udf39 A flower for the Virgin<\/h3>\n<p>Offer a simple prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe. Pray a Hail Mary for Mexico, for America and for all who need consolation.<\/p>\n<a href=\"\/en\/marian-prayers\/\">Pray a Hail Mary<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rr-btns\">\n<a class=\"rr-btn\" href=\"\/en\/marian-prayers\/\">\ud83d\ude4f Marian prayers<\/a>\n<a class=\"rr-btn\" href=\"\/en\/marian-calendar\/\">\ud83d\udcc5 Marian calendar<\/a>\n<a class=\"rr-btn\" href=\"\/en\/how-to-pray-the-rosary\/\">\ud83d\udcff Pray the Rosary<\/a>\n<a class=\"rr-btn\" href=\"\/en\/pray-the-rosary\/\">\ud83c\udf39 More devotions<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rr-fuentes\">\n<strong>Sources:<\/strong> Nican Mopohua (classic account of the apparitions, attributed to Antonio Valeriano, published by Luis Lasso de la Vega, 1649) \u00b7 Insigne and National Basilica of Holy Mary of Guadalupe (virgendeguadalupe.org.mx) \u00b7 Homily of Saint John Paul II at the canonization of Saint Juan Diego (31 July 2002) \u00b7 Catechism of the Catholic Church, nn. 487-507 (on the Mother of God). 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