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This is a story about Juan Diego's tilma, the robe that has given the iconic identity for the Roman Catholic Church: Guadalupe, the mother of Jesus Christ. Historical events are woven together with a creative story about the miraculous journey that ends in present day Mexico City, where the actual robe is housed in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. In the year 1531, a Nahuatl Aztec, who was given the Christian name Juan Diego, experienced three apparitions of the Virgin Mary. During each apparition, she spoke to the Aztec with a message to be delivered to Don Juan de Zumarraga, the bishop overseeing the church in the territory of Tepeyac. It wasn't until Juan Diego's third attempt to deliver the message that the venerable bishop finally believed the message, a message that included a miraculous and magnificent bouquet of flowers and the spectacular robe. And it is with a flower that sets the story of the royal robe in motion in the Garden of Eden and continues on a global journey. Time seems irrelevant for this journey, but historical turning points were key for the robe's final destination where it would be draped on the shoulders of the humble and obedient Juan Diego.