When did Our Lady of Guadalupe appear?

Answer 1

Catholic Answer Our Lady of Guadalupe is another name for the Blessed Virgin Mary. We do not know if she died or not. We only know that when she ended her life on earth she was assumed into heaven. In the East they refer to this as the Dormition (the falling asleep) as Our Blessed Lady was conceived without sin, and was never affected by Original Sin, most people do not feel they should suffered from the result of Original Sin: Death.

Answer 2

Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of the many titles of the Blessed Virgin Mary and she was born about the year 15 BC.
Our Lady of Guadalupe was not born. OLoG is simply a vision which occourred on Tepeyac hill in Mexico. Our Lady was probably born between 21-15 BC. The vision of OLoG occourred in December 1531.

Answer 3

Juan Diego is said to have been granted an apparition of the Virgin Mary on four separate occasions beginning on December 9, 1531, and ending on December 12 at the hill of Tepeyac just north of Mexico City.



Official Catholic accounts state that on the morning of December 9, 1531, Juan Diego saw an apparition of a young girl at the Hill of Tepeyac, near Mexico City.

Answer 4

Juan Diego is said to have been granted an apparition of the Virgin Mary on four separate occasions beginning on December 9, 1531, and ending on December 12 at the hill of Tepeyac just north of Mexico City.

Answer 5

In 1648 a priest named Miguel Sanchez wrote a book about a vision of the Virgin Mary, who came to a poor peasant called Juan Diego in 1531, asking him to have a chapel built in Tepeyac in her honour. As proof of her appeal, a miraculous image had also appeared on Juan Diego's cloak. Archbishop Fray Juan de Zumárraga accepted the reality of the vision and approved the construction of the shrine. Some scepticism may be justified, as the archbishop has not referred to this miracle in his writings, although it must have been the most stunning event in his career.

In 1723 a formal investigation was ordered into the life of Juan Diego. On May 6, 1990, he was beatified by the Pope during Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, and declared "protector and advocate of the indigenous peoples," with December 9 as his feast day. He was declared a saint in 2002.

The visions are considered by the Catholic Church as "worthy of belief," a form of support which is more limited than formal approval or recognition.

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Answer 6

There is no evidence that Our Lady of Guadalupe was an actual person, but she might have been an image that formed on a poor Mexican peasant's cloak.

According to the Guadalupe tradition, a poor Indian named Juan Diego saw a vision of the Virgin Mary on 9 December 1531, at the place in Tepeyac where there had been a temple of Tonantzin, 'Mother of the Gods'. She asked him to have a chapel built there in her honour. The bishop at first rebuffed Diego, but at the fourth apparition the Virgin instructed him to pick the flowers growing unseasonally on the hill at Tepeyac, fill his cactus fibre mantle with them and go to the bishop. When he opened his cape and the flowers fell out, a miraculous likeness of the Virgin Mary was found imprinted upon it. The bishop was convinced and the chapel was built.

Only in 1648 was a book about the vision and the image written by a priest named Miguel Sanchez. Whether the legend even existed very much prior to 1648 is a matter of speculation, but suddenly everyone knew about the Tepeyac image.

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Answer 7

There is no evidence that Our Lady of Guadalupe was an actual person, but she might have been an image that formed on a poor Mexican peasant's cloak.

Some historians consider that the sixteenth-century Spaniards created the legend of Our Lady of Guadalupe as a Christianised version of the local goddess Tonantzin, with the supposed purpose to encourage the conversion of the indigenous population of early Mexico. Others believe the virgin, Our Lady of Guadalupe was based on Coatlicue, the Aztec mother goddess.

According to the Guadalupe tradition, a poor Indian named Juan Diego saw a vision of the Virgin Mary on 9 December 1531, at the place in Tepeyac where there had been a temple of Tonantzin, 'Mother of the Gods'. She asked him to have a chapel built there in her honour. The bishop at first rebuffed Diego, but at the fourth apparition the Virgin instructed him to pick the flowers growing unseasonally on the hill at Tepeyac, fill his cactus fibre mantle with them and go to the bishop. When he opened his cape and the flowers fell out, a miraculous likeness of the Virgin Mary was found imprinted upon it. The bishop was convinced and the chapel was built.

Only in 1648 was a book about the vision and the image written by a priest named Miguel Sanchez. Whether the legend even existed very much prior to 1648 is a matter of speculation, but suddenly everyone knew about the Tepeyac image.

So, we could place Our Lady of Guadalupe (1) when the image is said to have appeared in 1531; (2) at any time in the sixteenth century, when the Christian missionaries were prepared to do whatever was necessary in order to convert the people and may have created the legend for that purpose; (3) when the book was written and the story was possibly first created, in 1648; (4) in first-century-BCE Palestine, as the Virgin Mary. None of these alternatives gives an actual date for the death of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

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Answer 8

Catholic Answer

Our Lady of Guadalupe is another name for the Blessed Virgin Mary. We do not know if she died or not. We only know that when she ended her life on earth she was assumed into heaven. In the East they refer to this as the Dormition (the falling asleep) as Our Blessed Lady was conceived without sin, and was never affected by Original Sin, most people do not feel they should suffered from the result of Original Sin: Death.

Answer 9

Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of the names Our Blessed Mother goes by. She was not canonized as she was born a saint.

Answer 10

Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of the many titles of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mary was conceived, born, lived and was assumed into heaven as a saint.