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22,000 Gather to Honor Our Lady of Guadalupe 

Nearly 22,000 people packed Jobing.com Arena in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale for an Aug. 8 festival honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe and featuring a special relic -- a small piece of St. Juan Diego's famed cloak.

 

Thousands Celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe in Phoenix Area

Crowds filled Jobing.com Arena on Saturday, August 8 and thousands more visit tilma relic at Cathedral on Sunday, August 9.   The largest Catholic celebration of the year in the Phoenix area drew a enthusiastic crowd of 20,000 to Jobing.com Arena.

 

Joyful Festival Concludes Week of Guadalupe Events 

Our Lady of Gudalupe and the tilma of St. Juan Diego took center stage, literally, before thousands of faithful ones at the Guadalupe Festival on August 8. An afternoon of song, dance, prayer, joyful celebrations and witness talks, the festival was held at the Jobing.com Arena, just outside of Phoenix, which was filled with nearly 20,000 attendees of all ages and many ethnic backgrounds.

Pontiff Praises Devotion to Mary of Guadalupe 

Benedict XVI praised the devotion to Mary that Latin Americans carry in their hearts, especially their affection to her image as Our Lady of guadalupe.

Knights of Columbus Plan Congress, Festival in Honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe
The Knights of Columbus will hold its First International Marian Congress on Our Lady of Guadalupe from August 6-8, 2009, following the organization’s 127th annual convention in Phoenix.

Our Lady, Queen of All America
When the Virgin Mary first appeared to St. Juan Diego on Dec. 9, 1531, she expressed her desire that a church be erected on Tepeyac Hill, near present-day Mexico City. “There,” she said, “I may exhibit all my love, compassion, help and protection, because I am your merciful mother, to you, and to all the inhabitants on this land and all the rest who love me, invoke and confide in me.”

The Christian Hemisphere
Our Lady of Guadalupe’s patronage of churches and families throughout the hemisphere goes back 475 years, yet her message today is as timely as it was in 1531. Although during these five centuries she has come to symbolize many things as Pope John Paul II noted in Ecclesia in America, hers is ultimately a message of unity, for she is a spiritual mother we all share.