Juan Diego obeyed her instruction and he found Castilian roses, not native to Mexico, blooming there. She assured him that Juan Bernardino had now recovered and told him to gather flowers from the summit of Tepeyac Hill, which was normally barren, especially in the cold of December. In the words which have become the most famous phrase of the Guadalupe apparitions and are inscribed above the main entrance to the Basilica of Guadalupe, she asked 'ВїNo estoy yo aquГ que soy tu madre?' ('Am I not here, I who am your mother?'). To avoid being delayed by the Virgin and ashamed at having failed to meet her on Monday as agreed, Juan Diego chose another route around Tepeyac Hill, yet the Virgin intercepted him and asked where he was going (fourth apparition) Juan Diego explained what had happened and the Virgin gently chided him for not having made recourse to her. Preliminary drawing of the Mexican Coat of arms, c. In the very early hours of Tuesday, December 12 (Julian calendar), Juan Bernardino's condition having deteriorated overnight, Juan Diego journeyed to Tlatelolco to get a Catholic priest to hear Juan Bernardino's confession and help minister to him on his deathbed. Д«y Monday, December 11 (Julian calendar), however, Juan Diego's uncle, Juan Bernardino, became ill, which obligated Juan Diego to attend to him. Later that day, the third apparition occurred when Juan Diego returned to Tepeyac encountering the same woman, he reported to her the Archbishop's request for a sign, which she consented to provide on the next day (December 11). The latter instructed him to return to Tepeyac Hill and to ask the woman for a truly acceptable, miraculous sign to prove her identity. The next day, Sunday, Decem(Julian calendar), Juan Diego spoke to the Archbishop a second time. Later the same day, Juan Diego again saw the young woman (the second apparition), and she asked him to continue insisting. Not unexpectedly, the Archbishop did not believe Diego. Based on her words, Juan Diego then sought the Archbishop of Mexico City, Fray Juan de ZumГЎrraga, to tell him what had happened. She was said to have asked for a church to be erected at that site in her honor.

According to the accounts, the woman, speaking to Juan Diego in his native Nahuatl language (the language of the Aztec Empire), identified herself as the Virgin Mary, 'mother of the very true deity'. Juan Diego experienced a vision of a young woman at a place called the Hill of Tepeyac, which later became part of Villa de Guadalupe, in a suburb of Mexico City. The first apparition occurred on the morning of Saturday, 9 December 1531 ( Julian calendar, which is December 19 on the (proleptic) Gregorian calendar in present use). 9.2 Other alleged supernatural qualitiesДescription of Marian apparitions ДЄccording to Nican Mopohua, a 17th-century account written in the native Nahuatl language, the Virgin Mary appeared four times to Juan Diego, an indigenous Mexican peasant Chichimec and once to his uncle, Juan Bernardino.

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