Juan Diego

Mary and the children. The sun danced across the sky and got really small and then really big. People were able to look at it without hurting their eyes or squinting. Thousands of people were witnesses to the event and now the apparition site is another pilgrimage site for millions of people with faith in Mary. The third major apparition of Mary that occurred was in Guadalupe, Mexico. An older man named Juan Diego was walking through the Tepayac hills when he encountered the Blessed Mother. She told him to go find the bishop and have him build a church on the very spot that they were standing on. When Juan Diego went to the bishop, he did not believe in what Juan Diego was telling him. The bishop needed a sign. After a few days, Juan Diego returned to Mary and told her what happened and she asked him to go and collect flowers on a hill and then show them to no one but the bishop. So Juan Diego collected the flowers and when he went to open up his tilma to the bishop, beautiful roses fell from his tilma. However, the bishop was brought to his knees by something else. Laying on Juan Diego’s tilma was a portrait of the beautiful Blessed Mother. To this day, art examiners are completely clueless on the method used to create the portrait. Needless to say, the church requested was built and now the site has become yet another pilgrimage place for people all across the world. Conclusion Each of the Marian apparitions have inspired faith and given hope for the world. Mary is now a…

Miguel Gonzalez’s piece titled The Virgin of Guadalupe depicts the Virgin of Guadalupe in the center, with a smaller image in very corner and a beautifully decorated frame encompassing her image. She is shown looking down with her head a bit tilted to the left, a pose that characterizes her and distinguishes her from different virgins. She is in the center, with a beige background that most likely represents Juan Diego’s tilma, where her image appeared for the first time. Emanating from her…

Symbolism Bless Me, Ultima by Anaya explains the life of a young Mexican-American boy named Antonio Marez. Who lives in New Mexico during the mid-1940. The novel opens up with Ultima, a curandera or a healer who comes to live with Antonia and his family for the last years of her life. As the story progresses, we see the difficulties that Antonio has to go through and how he matures. This novel contains elements of the types of different stories such as drama, fantasy,and nonfiction. This novel…

For my first Vocal Performer report, I chose to review the classical tenor named Juan Diego Florez in his performance of the French opera La fille du regiment (The Daughter of the Regiment). Juan Diego was Juan Diego Flórez is a renowned operatic tenor that was born in Lima, Peru on January 13, 1973. Juan Diego studied at the Curtis Institute of Music where he is said to have developed the Bel Canto technique. Bel Canto is a term related to Italian singing and as well as a particular music style…

Cultural Competence History and Background Mark and Louise Zwick founded Casa Juan Diego in 1980. Casa Juan Diego, located in Houston, Texas, provides a safe home for undocumented families that come from all over the world, seeking asylum. Many of these families are escaping from gang, political, and domestic violence and come to Casa Juan Diego in hopes of starting a new life here in the United States. This community filled with undocumented families who are attempting to start over, searching…

My summer at CDJ was a learning experience in every sense of the word. Every day I learned something new, whether it be a life lesson, general fact, and about the medical system or a new friend. One of my first lessons at Casa Juan Diego was solemn: not everyone can be helped, but you help all those you can. I learned this my first few weeks at Casa, when we were faced with a shortage of housing space. An influx of Cuban immigrants was arriving, which lead to overcrowding and full capacity while…

“It was because of your greed that all of this happened. You should’ve just sold the pearl or thrown it away.” I waited as Kino just stood there silently. “So be wise and don’t seek revenge on these men,” I continued. Kino sighed, “You are right, Juan Tomas.’’ Then, as we started to go back home, the pearl buyers came out of another room and told us to wait. Behind us, stood all three pearl buyers, looking really scared. “We are sorry for trying to cheat you,” they said to Kino. “Therefore, we…

Saint Isidore of Seville is the patron saint of the internet. With his feast day being April 4th. Saint Isidore was born into a family of saints in the sixth century of Spain. 3 siblings of his, being Leander, Fulgentius, and Florentina, are seen as saints in Spain. Saint Isidore’s family was also not only a family full of saints but also a family of leaders, with both Fulgentius and Leander both being bishops and Florentina an abbess. Because of this, this didn’t make life a lot easier to…

In the beginning of the book I Juan DE Pareja a boy who lost his mother at a young age is working of the mistrust of the house and is kept and fed well until one day a disease came and killed off most of the slaves and as Juan is laying there dying a man comes and say that you are blessed because god decided to save him and that he is lucky to be alive. This same man also helps get back his strength until a named Don Carmelo come to take him to his new master and a city called Madrid which would…

Not everyone has the skills of a professional when it comes to painting. But there were two very famous and well known artist who did. Diego Velázquez and Pablo Picasso were two very famous artist, and are still well known and remembered today. Both artist are very different and also alike in some unique ways with their style and technique. Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was the leading artist for the Spanish Golden Age. He died on August 6, 1660 in Madrid,Spain. Even though he was known for…