When is juan diegos feast day

Juan Diego faithfully took her request to his local bishop, who was skeptical. Juan Diego promised to produce proof of the apparition after he finished tending to his uncle, who was near death. On December 12, Juan Diego went to church to summon a priest for his uncle, and met Mary again. She promised to cure his uncle, and to give him. On the hill where he had first seen her, Juan Diego found fresh roses and flowers, even though it was winter.

He brought the flowers back to her, and Mary placed them in his tilma, telling him not to unwrap them until he reached the bishop. Juan Diego visited Bishop Zumarraga again. When he opened his tilma, the bishop saw the image we know now as that of Our Lady of Guadalupe, miraculously imprinted on the flower-filled cloth. She asked him to go to the Bishop and to request in her name that a shrine be built at Tepeyac, where she promised to pour out her grace upon those who invoked her.

The Bishop, who did not believe Juan Diego, asked for a sign to prove that the apparition was true. On 12 December, Juan Diego returned to Tepeyac. Here, the Blessed Mother told him to climb the hill and to pick the flowers that he would find in bloom. He obeyed, and although it was winter time, he found roses flowering. When he opened his mantle, the flowers fell on the ground and there remained impressed, in place of the flowers, an image of the Blessed Mother, the apparition at Tepeyac.

She said that she wanted a church to be built on that site. She told Juan to go and talk to the bishop. The bishop listened to Juan, but was skeptical.

He asked Juan to bring some kind of proof that he had really talked with the Virgin Mary. Juan was a simple man—a weaver and laborer. Before he could return to the Lady, he found out that his uncle was dying. Juan rushed to find a priest.