Annual Day of Marian Apparition 500+ years ago -- Mexico (Dec. 12)

from "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" (PBS dot-org) -- Multi-faith calendar D E C E M B E R 12 Our Lady of Guadalupe (Christian) Celebrates the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary (by her title, Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Patroness of Mexico and the Americas) before Juan Diego, an indigenous convert to Roman Catholicism, on the Mexican hill of Tepeyac in 1531.