Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego at Tepeyac Shrine - San Antonio, TX
N 29° 30.365 W 098° 30.276
14R E 548015 N 3264159
This large monument represents the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Saint Juan Diego on Tepeyac Hill in Mexico in 1531.
Waymark Code: WM12TWZ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/15/2020
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Juan Diego was a 57 years old Aztec widower who had become a Catholic a few years earlier when he was passing by Tepeyac Hill in Mexico to go to Mass at his church. As he went by this hill, he heard music and bird song that suddenly stopped and before him appeared a tan woman bathed in beams of golden sunlight! She called his name and said she was the Virgin Mary, Mother of the one true God, and that she wanted a temple built on this hill so she could make Him known to all the people. The vision told Juan Diego to go tell the Bishop what he saw and what she just told him. Juan Diego did, but the Bishop doubted him. He left to go home, but as he again passed the hill, the Lady was there and told him to return the next day. He was delayed and took a different path but the Lady appeared to him yet again. She told him to pick some rose blooms from the hill side, which, in December would not normally be blooming. The Lady instructed him to take the roses to the Bishop and not only would the Bishop have his sign to build the temple, but Diego's sick uncle would be healed completely. When Juan Diego again met with the Bishop, Diego unwrapped his tilma in which he's wrapped the roses to show the sign to the Bishop. However, the Bishop and everyone around who saw the event saw the image of the Lady on the tilma While this was happening, the sick uncle of Juan Diego saw a vision of the Lady in his room. This was her last apparition and she told the healed uncle to call her and her image the Lady of Guadalupe.
Juan Diego died in 1548. On 6 May 1990, Pope John Paul II beatified Juan Diego. On 31 July 2002, Pope John Paul II canonized his as Saint Juan Diego.
The location of the Tepeyac Shrine on the campus of the Oblate School of Theology is at 5722 Blanco Road, San Antonio, TX 78216. There is a large parking area available to visitors.
This Tepeyac San Antonio replica was originally built here in 10 December 1943 by the architect Richard Moore and sculptor Alberto Saucedo. In 1999, Jasmine Azima sponsored a renovated. This Tepeyac Shrine is also known as Our Lady of Guadalupe. The story above and the links to webpages below explain how Tepeyac and Our Lady of Guadalupe relate.
Although the Oblate School of Theology is a private school, the campus is open to guests who come to worship, meditate, or pray at the various places on campus designed just for those ministrations. Visitors are welcomed to walk the Stations of the Cross, meditate at the labyrinth, worship and pray at the Lourdes Grotto or visit the Hope Monument dedicated to the sanctity of human life. Please show proper respect and reverence to the people and the places while visiting.
Link about the origin of the Tecpeyac Hill apparitions in Mexico by Juan Diego:
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