While many around Tampa Bay area are preparing for the Christmas holiday, December 12 marks a significant holiday for Catholics.

The Catholic tradition — marked across the Inland Empire — commemorates the Virgin Mary’s 1531 appearance to a peasant in ...

St. Mary’s Catholic Church at 311 N ... Although Dec. 12 is the official day for the Catholic Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which honors the Virgin Mary as the patron saint of Mexico ...

and the most visited Catholic church in the world after Saint Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. Altogether 24 popes have officially honored Our Lady of Guadalupe. His Holiness St. John Paul II ...