Brother John M. Samaha, S.M. The recent canonization of Saint Juan Diego elicited worldwide enthusiasm for the recognition of another Christlike lay person. This latest saint of Mexico was the Virgin ...

Juan Diego didn’t have much luck with the bishop ... In Egypt I talked with devout Muslims who, because of their reverence for the Virgin Mary, had no qualms about visiting Christian churches ...

The day is celebrated in the Catholic tradition when St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, an early Franciscan missionary, saw an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary on his way to mass. When Diego saw ...

Thanks to you, we know that the Blessed Virgin of Guadalupe is the mother ... I ask you, Saint Juan Diego, to ask Mary, our mother, to wrap me in her protective mantle, I beg for her love ...

was one of the most revered apparitions of the Virgin Mary in New Spain. Her image is believed to have miraculously appeared on the cloak of a 16th-century Nahua man, Juan Diego. And throughout the ...

And again tell him that I, in person, the ever-virgin Holy Mary, Mother of God, sent you.” Juan Diego replied: “Lady, my Child, let me not cause you affliction. Gladly and willingly I will go ...