Within 10 years of Our Lady of Guadalupe’s appearance to a peasant, Juan Diego, on a hilltop near Mexico City in 1531, between 9 and 10 million of his fellow Indigenous people, hitherto adamantly ...

Maricela Torres laid a bouquet of flowers before a life-size sculpture of the Virgin Mary and knelt to the ground at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines. “I pray to her almost every ...

Today, December 12 — during the season of Advent — is the annual feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, an especially important day for Latino Catholics. But why is this day observed and what's the ...

Set amid the rolling hills of Wisconsin, a sanctuary inspired by the timeless message of Our Lady of Guadalupe aims to foster healing and hope. Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke in the Shrine of Our Lady of ...

As part of its international tour, a life-size sculpture of Our Lady of Guadalupe was celebrated at Des Plaines’ Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Aug. 27, 2025, where it will remain until Sept. 30.

About 2,000 walked, danced, sang and prayed through the streets of North Park on Sunday morning to pay homage to Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico and the Americas, as well as Mexican ...

Corrections & Clarifications: Previous versions of captions in some of the photos gave an incorrect date for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The feast day is on Dec. 12. The Virgin of Guadalupe ...

Candles and a cross in front of the altar at Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine on July 31, 2024. Originally a church of its own, the Shrine was rededicated in 1991 when the congregation merged with another ...

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You may have seen it framed and hanging in your grandmother’s house, on a poster carried during a protest, or even printed on a T-shirt—the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is present in places far ...

Mexican Americans and other Latinos across the country have been lighting candles, offering flowers and praying the rosary; in Illinois, th o usands have made their famous annual pilgrimage to mark ...