Saint Juan Diego

Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (1474–1548) was an Indigenous man baptized as an adult. On December 9, 1531, on his way to Mass, the Virgin Mary appeared to him on the hill of Tepeyac, near Mexico City, and asked for a church to be built there. On December 12 her image appeared on his tilma, or cloak, before the bishop. He spent the rest of his life caring for her chapel and was canonized on July 31, 2002.

He is the first Indigenous saint of the Americas. His tilma is displayed above the altar of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.