Our Lady of Guadalupe

Also known as Virgin of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico, Our Lady of Guadalupe (Tepeyac), Our Lady of Guadalupe, Tepeyac

title of the Virgin Mary as she appeared to an Indigenous man in Mexico in December 1531

Key facts

Location: Tepeyac Hill, Mexico City
Date: December 9–12, 1531 O.S. , (December 19–22, 1531 N.S. )
Witness: Juan Diego Juan Bernardino
Type: Marian apparition
Approval: October 12, 1895 ( canonical coronation granted by Pope Leo XIII )
Venerated in: Catholic Church , Evangelical Catholic Lutherans , Anglo-Catholics
Shrine: Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe , Tepeyac Hill, Mexico City , Mexico
Patronage: Mexico City (1737) New Spain (1754 by Pope Benedict XIV ) Ponce, Puerto Rico (1757) Philippines (July 16, 1935) Latin America (October 12, 1945) Mexico and the Americas (2000 by Pope John Paul II ) Cebu (2002 by Cardinal Ricardo Vidal )
Attributes: A pregnant woman, eyes downcast, hands clasped in prayer, clothed in a pink tunic robe covered by a cerulean mantle with a black sash, emblazoned with eight-point stars; eclipsing a blazing sun while standing atop a darkened crescent moon, a cherubic angel carrying her train
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Our Lady of Guadalupe (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe), also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe (Spanish: Virgen de Guadalupe) and as La Virgen Morena, is a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with four Marian apparitions to Juan Diego and one to his uncle Juan Bernardino reported in December 1531, when the Mexican territories were part of the Spanish Empire.

A venerated image on a cloak (tilmahtli) associated with the apparition is enshrined in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.