Juan Diego, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Juan Diego

Mexican saint

Date of Birth: 12-Jul-1474

Place of Birth: Cuautitlán, México, Mexico

Date of Death: 30-May-1548

Profession: missionary

Nationality: Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, also known as Juan Diego (1474–1548), a native of Mexico, is the first Roman Catholic indigenous saint from the Americas.
He is said to have been granted an apparition of the Virgin Mary on four separate occasions in December 1531 at the hill of Tepeyac, then a rural area but now within the borders of Mexico City.
The Basilica of Guadalupe, located at the foot of the hill of Tepeyac, claims to possess Juan Diego's mantle or cloak (known as a tilma) on which an image of the Virgin is said to have been impressed by a miracle as a pledge of the authenticity of the apparitions.
These apparitions and the imparting of the miraculous image (together known as the Guadalupe event, Spanish: el acontecimiento Guadalupano) are the basis of the veneration of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which is ubiquitous in Mexico, prevalent throughout the Spanish-speaking Americas, and increasingly widespread beyond.
As a result, the Basilica of Guadalupe is now the world's major centre of pilgrimage for Roman Catholics, receiving 22 million visitors in 2010.
Juan Diego was beatified in 1990 and canonized in 2002.

Miguel Cabrera (1695–1768)
Alternative names	Cabrera
Description	Mexican painter
Date of birth/death	27 February 1695	16 May 1768
Location of birth/death	Oaxaca de Juárez	Mexico City
Authority control	: Q527206 VIAF: 58928953 ISNI: 0000 0000 6707 4961 ULAN: 500005255 LCCN: nr90008005 Open Library: OL4764478A WorldCat