Une Minute avec Marie
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Juan Diego left, and later opened his tilma for the bishop, in the hollow of which he had placed the flowers. And just as all the different precious flowers fell to the floor, the beloved image of the ever-Virgin Mary, the holy Mother of God, became the sign, printed supernaturally on his tilma. Despite the fact that the evangelization of the Americas had gotten off to a bad start because of the deplorable behavior of the conquistadors, the miraculous events of Guadalupe impelled 9 million Indians to ask for baptism in the 10 years which followed.