The Virgin of Guadalupe is one of many "Marian apparitions" or 'miraculous' manifestations of the Virgin Mary, an icon of the Roman Catholic Church. She is especially venerated in Mexico, where she is said to have appeared to the impoverished native farmer Juan Diego in the early sixteenth century. According to legend, as Juan was on his way to mass one morning, he was distracted by the sound of music emanating from nearby Tepeyac hill, some say in the location of a shrine to the Aztec goddess Tonantzin.

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