Juan Diego Indian
Sergio Umbria
According to the narration of Luis Lasso, Juan
Diego had been an indigenous person of the ethnic group Chichimeca
He would have been born on May 5
From 1474 in the Tlayácac neighborhood of the
City of Cuautitlán (28 km east-northeast
From the historic center of Mexico City)
That it belonged to the kingdom of Texcoco
According to Lasso, the Indian was baptized by the
First Franciscan missionaries around
To the year of 1524
Juan Diego was a man considered pious
For the Franciscans and Augustinians settled in
Tlatelolco, where there was still no convent or church
But what was known as doctrine, a hut
Where mass was officiated and catechized
Juan Diego, he made a great effort to move every week
Leaving very early from the neighborhood of Tlayacac
Cuautitlán, which was where he lived, and walking south
Until bordering the Tepeyac hill
According to what was written by Luis Lasso de la Vega and
In accordance with tradition, in 1531, ten years later
Of the conquest of Tenochtitlan, on Saturday the 9th of
December 1531 (at his already 57 years of age) very
Morning on the Tepeyac hill he heard the song of the
Mexican tzinitzcan bird, announcing the appearance of The Virgin of Guadalupe
She appeared to him four times
Between December 9 and 12, 1531 and she entrusted him
Tell the then bishop, Fray Juan de Zumárraga, that
In that place he wanted a temple to be built
The virgin De Guadalupe ordered Juan Diego to cut some
Roses that had mysteriously just bloomed in the
To the top of the hill to take them to Bishop Zumárraga in his Ayate
Tradition refers that when Juan Diego showed
To the bishop the beautiful flowers during a frosty winter
The image of the Virgin miraculously appeared
Later called Guadalupe by the Spanish, printed
In the ayate The prelate ordered the construction of a hermitage
Where Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin would live for the rest of his
Days guarding the ayate in the current indigenous chapel
In his numerous writings and letters, Zumárraga omitted to leave
Some record of the miracle of the roses, or of the
Construction of the hermitage, or the existence of the Indian Juan Diego
He died in Mexico City in 15483 at the age of
74 years old on the attributed date of May 30
He was beatified (together with San José María Yermo and
Parres and the Blessed Children Martyrs of Tlaxcala) in the
Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City on 6
May 1990, during the second apostolic journey
To Mexico of Pope John Paul II
He finally went canonized in 2002 by John Paul II himself
And the Catholic Church celebrates his holiday on December 9