Each year since 1921, the Guadalupanas pilgrimages have taken place in Puerto Vallarta during the first twelve days of December to commemorate the appearance of the Virgin Mary to the peasant Juan Diego on December 12, 1531. The festival is known as the Festival of Guadalupe.
Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin is the first Roman Catholic indigenous American saint. He is said to have been granted an apparition of the Virgin Mary on four separate occasions in December 1531 at the hill of Tepeyac, in Mexico City . . .
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