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Yesterday, I posted on the deacon who was going to emcee this historic gathering<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Now, the Los Angeles Times has a wrapup<\/a><\/strong> of the event:<\/p>\n

Touted as the \u201clargest celebration of the Virgin Mary in a generation,\u201d tens of thousands of believers filled the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Sunday afternoon to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe, the long-revered symbol of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

Co-sponsored by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the Knights of Columbus, the roughly three-hour long, bilingual \u201cGuadalupe Celebration\u201d featured prayer, music and dance, as well as remarks from Archbishop Jos\u00e9 Gomez of Los Angeles and other religious leaders.<\/p>\n

More than 100,000 free tickets were distributed, organizers said, and although the 90,000-seat stadium was only about half full, the celebration drew attendees from throughout Southern California and beyond.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have people from all over the world, cultures, ways of life,\u201d Gomez said before the celebration\u2019s start. \u201cWe are very, very happy to celebrate today Our Lady of Guadalupe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Catholics \u2014 particularly those of Mexican descent \u2014 have long cherished Our Lady of Guadalupe, whom they believe appeared before Juan Diego on a hillside outside\u00a0Mexico City<\/a>\u00a0in the 1500s. According to the church, a dark-skinned Mary asked the poor Indian convert to tell the local bishop she wanted a chapel built for her people.<\/p>\n

But the bishop was not convinced, and asked for a sign that the message was in fact from the Virgin mother.<\/p>\n

Mary appeared again and told Juan Diego to gather roses and place them in his cloak. When he opened the tilma for the bishop, the roses fell out, revealing an image of Mary on the cloth.<\/p>\n

Juan Diego was canonized by\u00a0Pope John Paul II<\/a>\u00a0a decade ago, becoming the church\u2019s first indigenous American saint. His tilma, housed in\u00a0Mexico<\/a>\u00a0City, has become an important symbol for the church.<\/p>\n

A half-inch fragment of the cloak, known as the Tilma of Tepeyac, is enshrined at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles and believed to be the only piece in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery person on this continent shares a common mother,\u00a0nuestra se\u00f1ora de Guadalupe<\/em>,\u201d Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, told attendees Sunday. \u201cWe also have a shared future, a future of unity in our faith. The rosary which we say today and our love for Our Lady of Guadalupe can unite our city, unite our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Events honoring the tilma and the Virgin mother typically draw huge crowds. An estimated 140,000 people turned out to venerate the Tilma of Tepeyac during a 21-city tour before its arrival in Los Angeles in 2003. In 2009, 22,000 people attended the only other Guadalupe Celebration hosted by the Knights of Columbus at an Arizona arena.<\/p>\n

When news spread about Sunday\u2019s celebration, Gomez said, the reaction was \u201cunbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an incredible response,\u201d he said. \u201cAs soon as we started talking about getting together for the festival for Our Lady of Guadalupe, people got really interested.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read more.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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