I might have mentioned that there are a lot of feast days in December, but today is particularly special to us because Our Lady of Guadalupe is the patroness of our family.
Today’s feast day celebrates the apparition of Our Lady to Juan Diego on Tepeyac Hill in Mexico. Juan Diego was an Aztec convert to Christianity and under Our Lady’s instructions he picked roses growing miraculously on the hill to bring to the bishop. He carried the roses in his tilma and when he emptied them out to show the bishop he saw that Our Lady had miraculously left her image on his tilma. The tilma with the miraculous image can still be seen at the Guadalupe Basilica. You can read the full story of The Virgin of Guadalupe here (and I encourage you to).
Our Lady of Guadalupe is extremely important to our family and, as I understand it, very important to the Mexican people. One of Dad’s Mexican friends said, “90% of Mexicans are Catholic, but 100% believe in our Lady of Guadalupe.”
