The Knights of Columbus and the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine joined in effort to spread the gospel and make disciples. This Tepayac Hill and the images of Our Lady of Guadalupe and San Juan Diego will be a sacred place for all.
The shrine’s Tepeyac Hill features statues of Our Lady of Guadalupe and San Juan Diego. This hill is a place for all to venerate Our Lady, San Juan Diego and Blessed Stanley Rother, and to ask for intersessions for deepened faith, conversion of heart, the unborn and the Americas.
In December 1531, Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to a mestizo Christian named Juan Diego near Tepeyac Hill. She told him to tell the bishop Juan de Zumárraga to build a chapel at the base of the hill. Zumárraga did not believe Juan Diego and wanted proof that it was the true Lady of Guadalupe that had appeared to him. She gave Juan Diego fresh roses to carry in his tilma and show to Zumárraga. When Juan Diego opened his tilma the roses spilled out and an image of the Lady of Guadalupe appeared on the cloth. Zumárraga swiftly requisitioned the construction of a church.
"Our Lady entrusted to St. Juan Diego her request to the Bishop of Mexico to have a chapel built at Tepeyac. The obedient response of Mary’s humble servant began the most significant chapter in the story of the evangelization of the Americas. The Tepeyac Hill at the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine will be a place of encounter and witness to the steadfast love of God and maternal concern of Our Lady for all her children. Like St. Juan Diego, Blessed Stanley responded to God’s call to place himself under Mary’s maternal care in service to the Gospel. May all who visit and support the Tepeyac Hill project experience her motherly care."
- Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, Archdiocese of Oklahoma City.
"Just as St. Juan Diego found peace in the tender heart of Our Lady of Guadalupe, so too did the poor and marginalized encounter the love of God in the pastoral charity of Blessed Stanley Rother. TheTepeyac Hill project is a worthy endeavor, and it is fitting that Blessed Stanley Rother be memorialized at his shrine alongside Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Juan Diego."
- Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston