Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe is one of the titles or advocations of the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of Christ. According to tradition she appeared to the Aztec Indian Juan Diego soon after the Spanish conquest of Mexico. She asked Juan Diego to petition the local bishop to build a church in her honor on Tepeyac hill, where she had appeared. As proof of her apparition Mary left her image on Juan Diego’s cactus fiber cloak which still hangs in the Basilica of Guadalupe near Mexico City.
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