According to "Nican Mopohua," an account written in the 1600s in the native Nahuatl language from Mexico, in December of 1531 the Virgin Mary appeared four times to Juan Diego, a Chichimec peasant, and once to his uncle, Juan Bernardino. The first time, Juan Diego experienced a vision of her on the Hill of Tepeyac in which she identified herself as the Virgin Mary and asked for a church to be built in her honor. Juan raced to tell the local Archbishop who promptly didn't believe him. Once again she appeared to him and told him to keep insisting with the Archbishop. He tried again and again the Archbishop not only didn't believe him but also asked Juan Diego to ask for a sign, a miracle. Back Juan Diego went to Tepeyac and once again she appeared to him. He told her of the Archbishop's demand and she agreed to provide a sign the next day.
Unfortunately, Juan Diego's uncle, Juan Bernardino, had become very ill and instead of returning to Tepeyac the next day, he was busy taking care of his uncle who took a turn for the worse. On his way to find a priest to come to his uncle's deathbed to provide final rites, he tried to avoid the Hill of Tepeyac, but still the Virgin appeared to him and asked him why he'd not come the next day. When he explained, she chided him and told him he should've come to her for her help and now all was well with his uncle. She also told him he should go to the top of Tepeyac and gather flowers. Juan Diego did as she said and found where usually nothing grew, especially in the cold of December, not only roses blooming, but a type of rose not found in Mexico. He gathered up roses in his tilma (cape) and when Juan Diego took them to the Archbishop to show him the roses, they fell away from the tilma to reveal an image had appeared on the fabric of the Virgin.
The next day Juan Diego went to his uncle and found him now completely well. Juan Bernardino told him that he'd also had a vision of the Virgin praying at his bedside and she'd told him to tell the Archbishop of his miraculous recovery. She'd also told him that she wanted to be known by the name of Guadalupe. After these two miracles or signs, the Archbishop was finally a believer. At first he kept the mantle with her image in a private chapel and then on public display, but eventually they decided to erect a chapel on Tepeyac for it. During the procession to take the mantle there, more life-saving miracles occurred when they prayed for help from the Virgin Guadalupe.
Despite many of the clergy at the time being against the veneration of this Virgin and their belief that it was idolatry and superstition, over time the Virgin Guadalupe became Mexico's most popular religious and cultural symbol. The apparitions were taken as support of the indigenous origins of many of the people of Mexico and in modern times the Roman Catholic Church named the Virgin Guadalupe the Patroness of the Americas and the Empress of Latin America. Over the days of December 11 and 12, record numbers of pilgrims visit the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City. The image of the Virgin Guadalupe appears everywhere the Mexican diaspora goes in innumerable places.
This multi-cache will take you to 2 such places to admire the appearance of La Guadalupana. There's no need to enter private property at all. There's no need to bleed for this cache.
The first stage will provide coordinates for the final location and log. BYOP. No pen or pencil, so be sure to have one on you.
No sign, no find.
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