According to the narration of Luis Lasso, Juan Diego had been an indigenous person of the ethnic group Chichimeca He would have been born on May 5 From 1474 in the Tlayácac neighborhood of the City of Cuautitlán (28 km east-northeast From the historic center of Mexico City) That it belonged to the kingdom of Texcoco According to Lasso, the Indian was baptized by the First Franciscan missionaries around To the year of 1524 Juan Diego was a man considered pious For the Franciscans and Augustinians settled in Tlatelolco, where there was still no convent or church But what was known as doctrine, a hut Where mass was officiated and catechized Juan Diego, he made a great effort to move every week Leaving very early from the neighborhood of Tlayacac Cuautitlán, which was where he lived, and walking south Until bordering the Tepeyac hill According to what was written by Luis Lasso de la Vega and In accordance with tradition, in 1531, ten years later Of the conquest of Tenochtitlan, on Saturday the 9th of December 1531 (at his already 57 years of age) very Morning on the Tepeyac hill he heard the song of the Mexican tzinitzcan bird, announcing the appearance of The Virgin of Guadalupe She appeared to him four times Between December 9 and 12, 1531 and she entrusted him Tell the then bishop, Fray Juan de Zumárraga, that In that place he wanted a temple to be built The virgin De Guadalupe ordered Juan Diego to cut some Roses that had mysteriously just bloomed in the To the top of the hill to take them to Bishop Zumárraga in his Ayate Tradition refers that when Juan Diego showed To the bishop the beautiful flowers during a frosty winter The image of the Virgin miraculously appeared Later called Guadalupe by the Spanish, printed In the ayate The prelate ordered the construction of a hermitage Where Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin would live for the rest of his Days guarding the ayate in the current indigenous chapel In his numerous writings and letters, Zumárraga omitted to leave Some record of the miracle of the roses, or of the Construction of the hermitage, or the existence of the Indian Juan Diego He died in Mexico City in 15483 at the age of 74 years old on the attributed date of May 30 He was beatified (together with San José María Yermo and Parres and the Blessed Children Martyrs of Tlaxcala) in the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City on 6 May 1990, during the second apostolic journey To Mexico of Pope John Paul II He finally went canonized in 2002 by John Paul II himself And the Catholic Church celebrates his holiday on December 9