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Learn about the process of canonization in Making Saints by Kenneth Woodward, the religion editor of Newsweek. Click on the image above to order.
Read a collection of essays offering new insights into 17 saints in A Tremor of Bliss: Contemporary Writers on the Saints, edited by Paul Elie. Click on the image above to order.
Heroic virtue is not the exclusive domain of the past. Red about modern-day witnesses to the faith in Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century by Robert Royal. Click on the image above to order.
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9: Bl. Juan Diego Shortly after the Sapnish conquest of Mexico, in 1531, Our Lady appeared four times to a native convert, Juan Diego Cuatitlatoatzin (meaning "the talking eagle") at Tepeyac, near Mexico City. She identified herself as Tequantlaxopeuh, an Aztec word that means "who saves us from the Devourer" (later misunderstood by the Spaniards as Guadalupe, the location of a popular Marian shrine in Spain) and asked him to have a church built on the spot.Juan Diego tried to convince the skeptical bishop of Mexico City, Zumarraga, but the prelate would not listen to him because he was not a Spaniard. After returning to the bishop with his tilma, or cloak, filled with roses Mary had arranged in it, he opened the cloak to reveal a miraculos image. This depiction of Mary has become known as Our Lady of Guadalupe. The biishop built the small church, the predecessor of two great basilicas on the same spot. A member of the Chichimecca people, Juan Diego was perhaps a leader of his own people and may have been involved in the area's textile industry. Known for his holiness, Juan Diego deveoted himself, tradition, says, to the pilgrims who came to see the miraculous image of Mary imprinted on his cloak, now enshrined in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Under this title, Our Lady is Patroness of the Americas and of Mexico.
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