Talavera tiles for which the region is famous. Puebla, Mexico’s fourth largest city, is packed with ornate churches. We will visit the cathedral and Santo Domingo Church with its stunning Rosary Chapel. After lunch, we will continue to Tlaxcala and the Shrine of San Miguel del Milagro, where St. Michael the Archangel appeared to Juan Diego Lazaro and told him of a miraculous spring. Continue to Ocotlan to visit the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Ocotlan, where an apparition of Juan Diego in 1541 was miraculously burned into the trunk of an oak tree. We will walk down to the well and drink the healing water. Return to Mexico City for dinner and overnight. Day 8 - Return to the USA This morning, we will visit the Shrine of Guadalupe for the last time before going to the airport to return home.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, also called the Virgin of Guadalupe, is a 16th- century Roman Catholic Mexican icon depicting an apparition of the Virgin Mary to Saint Juan Diego, whose native name was Cuauhtla.
Juan Diego was born around 1474. He devoted himself to hard work in the fields and manufacturing mats. Between 1524 and 1525, he was converted and baptized, as well as his wife, receiving the Christian name of Juan Diego and his wife, Maria Lucia. A Franciscan priest baptized him, Fr. Peter da Gand, one of the first Franciscan missionaries. In April 1990, Juan Diego was declared Blessed by Pope John Paul I1 at the Vatican. The following month, in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Pope John Paul I performed the beatification ceremony during his second visit to the shrine. On July 2002, he was canonized by the Church during a ceremony by Pope John Paul Il, again at the Basilica of Guadalupe.
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