St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin - RLJUA
by Br Robert Lentz OFM
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St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin - RLJUA
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Br Robert Lentz OFM
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Painting - 22k Gold & Acrylic
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Ten years after the bloody Spanish conquest of Mexico, the Mother of God appeared to an Aztec craftsman named Juan Diego. She appeared as a woman with mixed Spanish and Aztec blood and addressed him in Nahuatl, the Aztec tongue, in a manner one would address a prince. She appeared some distance outside Mexico City, which had become the center of Spanish power, and she insisted that a shrine in her honor be built on that spot, among the conquered people. She sent Juan Diego back to the Spanish clergy to "evangelize" them--the ones who felt they already possessed all truth. In each of these ways, she restored dignity and hope to a native people who had been dehumanized by colonial oppression.
A shrine was later built where Mary appeared, and Juan Diego spent the remaining 17 years of his life there, repeating her message of hope and liberation to all who would come. In this icon he is dressed as an Aztec commoner, barefoot and wearing a loin cloth and short cloak. He holds a rose as a symbol of the flowers Mary sent him to pick, the morning her image appeared miraculously on his cloak. His original Nahuatl name, Cuauhtlatoatzin, means "Talking Eagle," and is included with his new Christian name to honor his native heritage.
In every age the miracle of Guadalupe should remind the Church that those the Church alienates are precisely the ones who have the gifts she needs so badly to grow and be reformed. We must each proclaim the Gospel--and hear it proclaimed from one another.
His feast day is December 9.
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