A month of Marian posts – Our Lady of Guadalupe

Today, during this Marian month of May, we look to the Patroness of the Americas, Our Lady of Guadalupe. Here is some information from the Saint of the Day page at American Catholic. The feast in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe goes back to the sixteenth century. Chronicles of that period tell us the [...]

Monday Musing – ¡Llevar las rosas detrás de ti! The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

St. Juan Diego was a simple man. He was named Cuauhtlatohuac and was a Nahuatl native of what we know today as Mexico. He had been converted and baptized as Juan Diego – or John James. However, 10 years after the fall of the Aztec empire, the Mexico of 1531 was hardly a hotbed of [...]