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During the early years of the Church’s mission in Mexico, there were few conversions among the natives; Christianity was the religion of the Europeans. Our Lady of Guadalupe, though, who appeared in 1531 to St. Juan Diego and requested a church to be built on the site of her apparition, was one of their own. When Our Lady appeared to a native man, an insignificant widower, she spoke to him in his native language, called herself his mother, and charged him with speaking for her to the …