The Tilama, located in The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico.Nuestra Señora de Guad

The Tilama, located in The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico.

Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe(Our Lady of Guadalupe) in Roman Catholicism was an apparition of the Virgin Mary on December 9, 1531. She appeared to a Mexican man named Juan Diego on his way to mass, asking that a shrine is built of her on that spot. When Diego told the clergy, the bishop demanded a sign. She appeared once again to Deigo and told him to collect roses. Deigo presented the roses to the bishop by opening up his cloak and letting them fall out, and on the inside of his cloak revealed the image of Mary. 

She then became the patroness of New Spain as well as a symbol for the Mexican independence movement. Thousands of pilgrims from all over the world still come to see her image in The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which was built on the spot where she supposedly appeared.