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In April of 1990 Juan Diego was
declared blessed
by Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. The following month, in
the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, during his
second visit to the shrine, John Paul II performed the beatification
ceremony. Who was this Juan Diego?
His native name was Cuauhtlatoatzin,
which could be translated as “One who talks like an eagle” or
“eagle that talks”.
The Nican Mopohua describes him as a 'macehualli'
or “poor Indian”, one who did not belong to any of the social
categories of the Empire, as priests, warriors, merchants,...but not a
slave; a member of the lowest and largest class in the Aztec Empire.
He devoted himself to hard work in the fields and manufacturing mats.
He owned a piece of land and a small house on it. He was happily
married but had no children.
He walked every Saturday and Sunday
many miles to Church, departing early morning, before dawn, to be on
time for Mass and religious instruction classes. He walked on naked
feet.
During one of these walks to
Tenochtitlan, which used to take about three and a half hours between
villages and mountains, the First apparition occurred, in a place that
is now known as the “Capilla del Cerrito”, where the Blessed
Virgin Mary talked to him in his language, Nahuatl. She called him
“Juanito, Juan Dieguito “, “the most humble of my sons”, “my
son the least”, “my little dear”.
After the miracle of Guadalupe, Juan Diego moved to a room attached to
the chapel that housed the sacred image, after having given his
business and property to his uncle; and he spent the rest of his life
propagating the account of the apparitions to his countrymen. He died
on May 30, 1548, at the age of 74.
Juan Diego deeply loved the Holy Eucharist, and by special permission
of the Bishop he received Holy Communion three times a week, a highly
unusual occurrence in those times.
Pope John Paul II praised Juan Diego for his simple faith nourished by
catechesis and pictured him (who said to the Blessed Virgin Mary: “I
am a nobody, I am a small rope, a tiny ladder, the tail end, a leaf”)
as a model of humility for all of us.
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