Our Lady of Guadalupe
| Our Lady of Guadalupe Empress of the Americas Patroness of Latin America Queen of Mexico | |
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| Location | Tepeyac Hill, Mexico City |
| Date | 9–12 December 1531 O.S. (19-22 December 1531 N.S.) |
| Witness | Juan Diego Juan Bernardino |
| Type | Marian apparition |
| Approval | October 12, 1895 (canonical coronation granted by Pope Leo XIII) |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church Lutheran Church Anglo-Catholicism |
| Shrine | Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Tepeyac Hill, Mexico City, Mexico |
| Patronage | Mexico City (1737) New Spain (1754 by Pope Benedict XIV) Ponce, Puerto Rico (1757) Latin America (October 12, 1945) Mexico and the Americas (2000 by Pope John Paul II) Cebu (2002 by Card. Ricardo Vidal) |
| Attributes | A pregnant woman, eyes downcast, hands clasped in prayer, clothed in a pink tunic robe covered by a cerulean mantle with a black sash, emblazoned with eight-point stars; eclipsing a blazing sun while standing atop a darkened crescent moon, a cherubic angel carrying her train |
| Feast day | 12 December (Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe) |
Our Lady of Guadalupe (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe), also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe (Spanish: Virgen de Guadalupe), is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus associated with a series of five Marian apparitions to a Mexican peasant named Juan Diego and his uncle, Juan Bernardino, which are believed to have occurred in December 1531, when the Mexican territories were under the Spanish Empire.
A venerated image on a cloak (tilmahtli) associated with the apparition is enshrined within the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Pope Leo XIII granted the image a decree of canonical coronation on February 8, 1887, and it was pontifically crowned on October 12, 1895. The basilica is the most-visited Catholic shrine in the world, and the world's third most-visited sacred site.