Case file · Apparition / miracle
Our Lady of Ocotlán, Tlaxcala
Tlaxcalan tradition says that in 1541, during an epidemic, the Virgin appeared to the Indigenous man Juan Diego Bernardino, showed him a healing spring and left her statue inside a burning pine (ocote).
1541 CE · 19.32, -98.23 · status: legend
The account
The tradition is first recorded in the 18th century. The shrine's lavishly carved church is a masterpiece of Mexican Baroque.