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Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, Saint Peter Fourier, Blessed Liborius Wagner Pray For Us 🙏

Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin Saint Juan Diego Also known as • Cuauhtlatoatzin • Juan Diego Cuautlatoatzin
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Born an impoverished free man in a strongly class-conscious society. Farm worker, field labourer, and mat maker. Married layman with no children. A mystical and religious man even as a pagan, he became an adult convert to Christianity around age 50, taking the name Juan Diego. Widower in 1529. Visionary to whom the Virgin Mary appeared at Guadalupe on 9 December 1531, leaving him the image known as Our Lady of Guadalupe. Born 1474 Tlayacac, Cuauhtitlan (about 15 miles north of modern Mexico City, Mexico) as Cuauhtlatoatzin Died 30 May 1548 of natural causes Beatified • 9 April 1990 by Pope John Paul II at Vatican City • recognition celebrated on 6 May 1990 at Mexico City, Mexico Canonized • 31 July 2002 • recognition celebrated at the basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico by Pope John Paul II Representation eagle
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Let not your heart be disturbed. Do not fear that sickness, nor any other sickness or anguish. Am I not here, who is your Mother? Are you not under my protection? Am I not your health? Are you not happily within my fold? What else do you wish? Do not grieve nor be disturbed by anything. - Our Lady to Juan Diego, 9 December 1531
At the dawn of Mexican evangelization Saint Juan Diego holds a place all by himself; according to tradition, his indigenous name was Cuauhtlatohuac, "The eagle who speaks". His lovable figure is inseparable from the Guadalupe event, the miraculous maternal manifestation of the Virgin, Mother of God, both in iconographic and literary memorials as well as in the centuries-old devotion which the Mexican Church has shown for this Indian so loved by Mary. Similar to ancient Biblical personages who were collective representations of all the people, we could say that Juan Diego represents all the indigenous peoples who accepted the Gospel of Jesus, thanks to the maternal aid of Mary, who is always inseparable from the manifestation of her Son and the spread of the Church, as was her presence among the Apostles on the day of Pentecost. The information about him that has reached us praises his Christian virtues: his simple faith, nourished by catechesis and open to the mysteries; his hope and trust in God and in the Virgin; his love, his moral coherence, his unselfishness and evangelical poverty. Living the life of a hermit here near Tepeyac, he was a model of humility. The Virgin chose him from among the most humble as the one to receive that loving and gracious manifestation of hers which is the Guadalupe apparition. Her maternal face and her Saint image which she left us as a priceless gift is a permanent remembrance of this. In this manner she wanted to remain among you as a sign of the communion and unity of all those who were to live together in this land. The recognition of the cult which for centuries has been paid to the layman Juan Diego takes on a special importance. It is a strong call to all the lay faithful of this nation to assume all their responsibilities, for passing on the Gospel message and witnessing to one faith active and working in the sphere of Mexican society. From this privileged spot of Guadalupe, ever-faithful heart of Mexico, I wish to call on all the Mexican laity, to commit themselves more actively to the re-evangelization of society. The lay faithful share in the prophetic, priestly and royal role of Christ (cf. Lumen Gentium, 31), but they carry out this vocation in the ordinary situations of daily life. Their natural and immediate field of action extends to all the areas of human coexistence and to everything that constitutes culture in the widest and fullest sense of the term. As I wrote in the Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles Laici: "In order to achieve their task directed to the Christian animation of the temporal order, in the sense of serving persons and society, the lay faithful are never to relinquish their participation in public life, that is, in the many different economic, social, legislative, administrative and cultural areas, which are intended to promote organically and institutionally the common good" (n. 42). Catholic men and women of Mexico, your Christian vocation is, by its very nature, a vocation to the apostolate (cf. Apostolicam Actuositatem, 3). Therefore, you cannot remain indifferent before the suffering of your brothers and sisters: before the poverty, corruption and outrages committed against the truth and human rights. You must be the salt of the earth and the light of the world (cf. Matthew 5:13-14). Thus the Lord says once more to us today: "Let your light shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven" (Matthew 5:16). Juan Diego too shines before you, raised by the Church to the honours of the altar; we can invoke him as the protector and the advocate of the indigenous peoples. - Pope John Paul II at the beatification of Saint Juan Diego, 6 May 1990 https://catholicsaints.info/saint-juan-diego/

Saint Peter Fourier
Also known as • Good Father of Mattaincourt • Le Bon Père de Mattaincourt
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Educated at the University of Pont-a-Mousson, entering at age 15. Tutor to the sons of many noble families. Augustinian Canon Regular at the abbey in Chaumousey, France. Ordained in 1589. He returned to university, became a master of patristic theology, and could recite the Summa Theologica of Saint Thomas Aquinas by heart. Reforming priest at Mattaincourt, Vosges, France, an area noted for corruption and lax attitudes to heresy; he revitalized the spiritual life of the district, and established charities and banks for the poor. Spiritual teacher of Blessed Alix le Clerc. In 1598 he founded the Daughters of Our Lady for the education of girls. Founded the Sodality of the Immaculate Conception, or Children of Mary. His attempt to found a parallel order to teach boys failed. In 1621 he was ordered to reform his order in Lorraine. In 1625 he was sent to Salm to preach missions and work against Calvinism; within six months all the fallen away Catholics had returned to the Church. Helped found the Congregation of Our Saviour in 1629 and served as its superior general in 1632. When the French government ordered him to swear allegiance to King Louis XIII he refused, and spent the rest of his life in exile in the town of Gray, Haute-Saone, France. Born 30 November 1565 at Mirecourt, Lorraine (modern France) Died 9 December 1640 at Gray, Haute-Saone (modern France) of natural causes Beatified 20 January 1730 by Pope Benedict XIII Canonized 27 May 1897 by Pope Leo XIII Representation man wearing a rochet, distributing pictures of the Blessed Virgin Mary and chaplets to children https://catholicsaints.info/saint-peter-fourier/

Blessed Liborius Wagner Also known as Liborio
Profile Raised a Protestant, he studied in Mühlhausen, Leipzig, Gotha and Strasbourg, then in 1621 began studying with Jesuits in Würzburg, Germany where he converted to Catholicism. Ordained on 29 March 1625, Liborius served as chaplain in Hardheim, Germany, then as parish priest at Altenmünster, Germany a predominently Protestant city. He ministered to everyone in his city, and his example brought many Protestants to re-union with the Catholic Church. In 1631, the Protestant Swedes, fighting in the Thirty Years' War, reached Altenmünster, and Father Liborius was forced to flee the city; he hid in Reichmannhausen, which was only couple of miles away, so he could return to minister to his parishioners. On 4 December 1631 he was betrayed, captured by the Swedes, tied behind a horse, and dragged several miles to the castle of Mainberg where he was subjected to several days of torture to force him to renounce the Catholic Church; he refused. Martyr. Born 5 December 1593 at Mühlhausen, Unstrut-Hainich, Thuringia, Germany Died • beaten to death with swords and firearms on 9 December 1631 on the River Main, Schonungen, Schweinfurt, Germany • stripped of his priestly garb to make identification harder, and his body thrown into the River Main • body recovered from the river by area Catholics, and buried nearby • following the end of Swedish rule in the area, his body was re-interred in the chapel of the castle of Mainberg • re-interred in the parish church of San Lorenzo, Heidenfeld, Germany on 15 December 1637 Beatified 24 March 1974 by Pope Paul VI https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-liborius-wagner/

Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin

St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (1474–1548) was an Indigenous Mexican convert and visionary associated with the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Born in Cuautlitlán (now part of Mexico City) with the name Cuauhtlatoatzin (“the talking eagle”), he belonged to the Chichimeca people. At about fifty, he was baptized by the Franciscan missionary Fr. Peter da Gand.

On December 9, 1531, while on his way to Mass, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to him on Tepeyac Hill, asking that a shrine be built in her honor. When the local bishop asked for proof, the Virgin directed Juan Diego to gather roses blooming miraculously in winter. He carried them in his cloak (tilma), and when he opened it before the bishop on December 12, the flowers fell, revealing the miraculous image of Our Lady of Guadalupe imprinted on the fabric.

Juan Diego spent the remainder of his life as a hermit near the chapel that housed the image, devoting himself to prayer, service, and caring for pilgrims. He died in 1548 and was buried in the first chapel of the Virgin.

The miraculous image, which is preserved in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, shows a woman with native features and dress. She is supported by an angel whose wings are reminiscent of one of the major gods of the traditional religion of that area. The moon is beneath her feet and