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OUR LADY OF GUAD.4LUPE CHOSE JUAN <br />DIEGO to make known her great wish to help all <br />who came to her. He was an Aztec Indian, a man <br />of great simplicity and directness, so charitable <br />that in caring (or a sick uncle, he forgot an appoinrv <br />ment wish Our Lady. On December 12, 1531 <br />Mary gave him her own picture "painted by <br />bnsshes not of this world." miraculously impressed <br />on his films, a shawl-like cloak o(cactus fibre. <br />Dunng his remaining 16 years till death at 74, <br />Juan Diego told and re-i old his story, doing his <br />part as a lay apostle in the grea~eat mass convey <br />non in Chrim ion hisrnry, as millions in Cenmal <br />America soon came m she musionan<s to be <br />baptizrd. <br />In 1976 the !ilma was Transferred to the New <br />Basilica. It is mounted here today above and <br />behind the main altar. Before the h/rsa on a lower <br />level, other millions continue the long pilgrim <br />march o(the centuries. They come to thank Our <br />Lady !or favors recei"ved and To asls (or help in <br />their needs. Flags of all the New World countries, <br />mngnl alnngaidq silently proclaim Mary's patmn- <br />agc as Mother of the Americas. <br />Pope John Paul 11 beatified Juan Diego here May <br />6, 1990. Notice of favors received may be sent to <br />the address below. <br />Workers of St. Joseph <br />P.O. Bax 77 <br />Cardinal Station <br />Washington, D.C. POOfi•1 <br />WITH ECCLESIASTICAL APPIiOVAL <br />GJ~z~~~c ICCt~I~.T U ! i here it c,~ .c:,~fltel~,~ ~r(~~l/~. ',, <br />Knn h~~ly D, nL. <br />1i KCNC-N <br />DENVER <br />s,t <br />~ ~ ~ <br />4 1 <br />i <br />PRAYER FOR GUIDANCE ' <br />