The moment
Tradition holds that in December 1531 the Virgin Mary appeared to Juan Diego, an Indigenous convert, on the hill of Tepeyac outside Mexico City, and left her image on his cloak. The earliest published accounts date from 1648 and 1649, and historians debate what lies behind them, but the devotion became the heart of Mexican Catholicism, and in 2002 Juan Diego was canonised.
People: Juan Diego