One would be hard pressed to find a better example of a highly evocative national symbol than the Virgin of Guadalupe of Mexico. Like her famous Polish counterpart, the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, ...
Altogether 25 popes have officially honored Our Lady of Guadalupe. His Holiness John Paul II visited her Sanctuary four times: on his first apostolic trip outside Rome as Pope in 1979, and again ...
He went to Mexico and presided over the Conference in Puebla. He visited the shrine of our Lady of Guadalupe in the new basilica built in her honor. There, in the presence of all the bishops of ...