"Fashioning an Icon" explores the use of the Virgin of Guadalupe in fashion, textiles and adornment in Mexico and the San ...

Our Lady of Guadalupe is a symbol of faith, culture and identity for many Mexicans and Latin Americans and, in turn, has ...

The Virgin of Guadalupe, whose shrine sits on what was once the outskirts of Mexico City, was one of the most revered apparitions of the Virgin Mary in New Spain. Her image is believed to have ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s apparition time: 5:40 p.m. In a small Roman Catholic chapel in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the village of ...

In 1531 a "Lady from Heaven" appeared to a humble Native American at Tepeyac, a hill northwest of what is now Mexico City. She identified herself as the ever Virgin Holy Mary, Mother of the True ...

There, in the presence of all the bishops of America, the holy Father addressed this prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary. O Immaculate Virgin, mother of the true God and mother of the Church!