What you didn’t know about Our Lady of Guadalupe. ‘Guadalupe’ actually was the name of a town in Estremadura, Spain. A statue of Our Lady had been given to the bishop of Seville around the year 600 by Pope Gregory the Great. It was lost and was found 600 years later by a cowherd near this town.

In 1531 a young native boy in Mexico described an apparition by a ‘Lady from Heaven’ who identified herself as ‘from Guadalupe’.