The basilica is the most-visited Catholic shrine in the world, and the world's third most-visited sacred site. Catholic accounts provide that the Virgin Mary appeared four times to Juan Diego and once more to his uncle, Juan Bernardino. The first apparition occurred on the morning of Saturday, 9 December Julian calendar , which is December 19 on the proleptic Gregorian calendar in present use , when it is said that an indigenous Mexican peasant named Juan Diego experienced a vision of a young woman at a place called the Hill of Tepeyac , which later became part of Villa de Guadalupe , in a suburb of Mexico City. Not unexpectedly, the Archbishop did not believe Diego. Later the same day, Juan Diego again saw the young woman the second apparition , and she asked him to continue insisting. The latter instructed him to return to Tepeyac Hill and to ask the woman for a truly acceptable, miraculous sign to prove her identity. Later that day, the third apparition occurred when Juan Diego returned to Tepeyac; encountering the same woman, he reported to her the Archbishop's request for a sign, which she consented to provide on the next day December


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