Juan Diego's Our Lady Of Guadalupe

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Our Lady of Guadalupe is a representation of a mother figure. She is also known as the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus but also our mother. In Mexico her image has played an important role as a national symbol. The story of Our Lady of Guadalupe starts off as she appearing to Juan Diego in a vision in 1531. According to tradition, Mary appear to Juan Diego on December 12 of 1531 and had a mission for him. He was to built a shrine in her name which today stands in the suburbs of Mexico City. Diego was amazed by what had just happen to him, he was a peasant who had very little money and no education at all. He repeatedly asked himself why the Virgin Mary had appeared to him; was it because he was the only person there at the moment or was