RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Juan Diego

1474 - 1548

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Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, also known simply as Juan Diego (Spanish pronunciation: [ˌxwanˈdjeɣo]; 1474–1548), was a Nahua peasant and Marian visionary. He is said to have been granted apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe on four occasions in December 1531: three at the hill of Tepeyac and a fourth before don Juan de Zumárraga, then the first bishop of Mexico. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Juan Diego has received more than 1,147,397 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Juan Diego is the 886th most popular religious figure (down from 861st in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Mexico (down from 37th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Mexican Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Juan Diego ranks 886 out of 3,187Before him are Al-Tabarani, Angela of Foligno, Ahmad al-Rifaʽi, Scipione Borghese, Mary of Bethany, and Killing of Peter Fechter. After him are Maria Cristina of Savoy, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Mammes of Caesarea, Severinus of Noricum, Abiathar, and Isma'il ibn Ja'far.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1474, Juan Diego ranks 7Before him are Ludovico Ariosto, Angela Merici, Giulia Farnese, Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia, Isabella d'Este, and Tuman bay II. After him are Mariotto Albertinelli, Anacaona, Frederick of Saxony, Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and Perkin Warbeck. Among people deceased in 1548, Juan Diego ranks 4Before him are Catherine Parr, Sigismund I the Old, and Gonzalo Pizarro. After him are Juan de Zumárraga, Girolamo Savoldo, João de Castro, Philip, Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg, and Pascual de Andagoya.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Juan Diego ranks 41 out of 729Before him are Venustiano Carranza (1859), Julia Pastrana (1834), Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal (603), Mario J. Molina (1943), Pedro Armendáriz (1912), and María Félix (1914). After him are Linda Christian (1923), Victoriano Huerta (1850), Juan Rulfo (1917), José Clemente Orozco (1883), Consuelo Velázquez (1916), and Cuitláhuac (1476).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Mexico

Among religious figures born in Mexico, Juan Diego ranks 2Before him are Julia Pastrana (1834). After him are José Sánchez del Río (1913), Marcial Maciel (1920), Tlacaelel (1397), Juan Sandoval Íñiguez (1933), Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (1926), Bernard Francis Law (1931), Miguel Pro (1891), Javier Lozano Barragán (1933), Norberto Rivera Carrera (1942), and Francisco Robles Ortega (1949).