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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 La Morenita (The Brown Lady ), is a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a Marian apparition and a venerated image enshrined within the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. The basilica is the most visited Catholic pilgrimage site in the world, and the world 's third most -visited sacred site. Pope Leo XIII granted the venerated image a canonical coronation on 12 October 1895.

Marian apparitions

Catholic accounts claim that the Virgin Mary appeared four times before Juan Diego and once more before Juan Diego 's uncle. The first apparition occurred on the morning of December 9, 1531 (on the Julian calendar, which would be December 19 on the Gregorian calendar used today), when it is said that a native Mexican peasant named Juan Diego experienced a vision of a young woman at a place called the Hill of Tepeyac, which would become part of Villa de Guadalupe, in a suburb of Mexico City.

According to the accounts, the woman, speaking to Juan Diego in his native Nahuatl language (the language of the Aztec Empire ), identified herself as the Virgin Mary, " mother of the very true deity ". She was said to have asked for a church to be built at that site in her honor.

Based on her words, Juan Diego then sought out the archbishop of Mexico City, Fray Juan de Zumárraga, to tell him what had happened. Not unexpectedly, the bishop did not believe Diego, but on the same day Juan Diego saw the young woman for a second time (the second apparition). The story continues saying she then asked him to keep insisting.