St. Juan Diego will be the second new Catholic church to open in the East ... The estimated cost for the project is $6.4 million. St. Mary's expects to finance the remainder, he said.

“St. Juan Diego is the first indigenous Catholic saint to the Americas and said to have been visited by Our Lady of Guadalupe in what is now Mexico City,” said Alejandro Castillo, a spokesman ...

St. Juan Diego Catholic Church, 5995 N.W. 178th Ave., opened Sunday with a dedication Mass presided over by Archbishop John G. Vlazny. The parish was founded in 2002, and this is the first church ...

Within 10 years of Our Lady of Guadalupe’s appearance to a peasant, Juan Diego ... wave of Christian conversions during St. Juan Diego’s lifetime.

Many are familiar with the story of St. Juan Diego, whose feast is celebrated ... and in their place built Catholic churches. Franciscans were the first missionaries to arrive in the region ...

(RNS) — The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, on Dec. 12, marks the appearance of Mary to St. Juan Diego, an Indigenous ... LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Growing up Catholic in Mexico, Jovita Torres ...

The uplifting song tells the inspiring story of the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe to St. Juan Diego in Mexico City ... making it the most visited Catholic shrine in the world.