RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Juan Diego

1474 - 1548

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Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (1474–1548), also known simply as Juan Diego (Spanish pronunciation: [ˌxwanˈdjeɣo]), was a Nahua peasant and Marian visionary. He is said to have been granted apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe on four occasions in December 1531: three at the hill of Tepeyac and a fourth before don Juan de Zumárraga, then the first bishop of Mexico. The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, located at the foot of Tepeyac, houses the cloak (tilmahtli) that is traditionally said to be Juan Diego's, and upon which the image of the Virgin is said to have been miraculously impressed as proof of the authenticity of the apparitions. Juan Diego's visions and the imparting of the miraculous image, as recounted in oral and written colonial sources such as the Huei tlamahuiçoltica, are together known as the Guadalupe event (Spanish: el acontecimiento Guadalupano), and are the basis of the veneration of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Juan Diego is the 913th most popular religious figure (down from 886th in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Mexico (up from 41st in 2019) and the most popular Mexican Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Juan Diego ranks 913 out of 3,187. Before him are Fatimah bint Asad, Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir, Giuseppe Bertello, Theodore Stratelates, Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak, and Charles Spurgeon. After him are Primož Trubar, Cyriacus, Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Giuseppe Moscati, Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, and Killing of Peter Fechter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1474, Juan Diego ranks 6. Before him are Ludovico Ariosto, Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia, Angela Merici, Isabella d'Este, and Giulia Farnese. After him are Mariotto Albertinelli, Tuman bay II, Frederick of Saxony, Anacaona, Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and Perkin Warbeck. Among people deceased in 1548, Juan Diego ranks 3. Before him are Catherine Parr, and Sigismund I the Old. After him are Gonzalo Pizarro, Juan de Zumárraga, Girolamo Savoldo, Pascual de Andagoya, João de Castro, and Philip, Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Juan Diego ranks 37 out of 729. Before him are Cantinflas (1911), Cuitláhuac (1476), Alfonso García Robles (1911), Álvaro Obregón (1880), Mario J. Molina (1943), and Venustiano Carranza (1859). After him are Luis Barragán (1902), Plutarco Elías Calles (1877), Juan Rulfo (1917), Guillermo del Toro (1964), Ramon Novarro (1899), and Victoriano Huerta (1850).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Mexico

Among religious figures born in Mexico, Juan Diego ranks 1. After him are Julia Pastrana (1834), Marcial Maciel (1920), José Sánchez del Río (1913), Juan Sandoval Íñiguez (1933), Tlacaelel (1397), Francisco Robles Ortega (1949), Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (1926), Bernard Francis Law (1931), Carlos Aguiar Retes (1950), Adolfo Suárez Rivera (1927), and Javier Lozano Barragán (1933).

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