To ask the Bishop to build a chapel in her honour so that she could intercede for those that are suffering.
The message from Mary to Saint Juan Diego was this. She said, "I vividly desire that a church be built on this site, so that in it I can be present and give my love, compassion, help, and defense, for I am your most devoted mother . . . to hear your laments and to remedy all your miseries, pains, and sufferings."
Juan Diego
She appeared to Juan Diego on the hill of Tepeyac which today is in northern Mexico City.
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an achievement that Juan Diego had was getting to see Mary and prove to the pope that he saw her. He also was the first person to be catholicilized.
Juan Diego was a Mexican peasant who reported seeing an apparition of the Virgin Mary, known as Our Lady of Guadalupe, in 1531. The Catholic Church eventually recognized the event as a miracle, and Juan Diego was canonized as a saint in 2002.
Juan Diego was an Aztec Indian living near what is now Mexico City in the 16th century and a recent convert to Catholicism. His wife had recently died. He had several visits from the Blessed Virgin Mary as the Virgin of Guadalupe. He was a mat weaver by trade.
Our Lady of Guadalupe - the Blessed Virgin Mary.
She appeared to Juan Diego.
December 9 of 1531 was the date of the first appearance.
Mary appeared to Juan Diego during the month of December in the year 1531.
No, Juan Diego died of natural causes, probably due to complications old age.