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On July 31, Pope John Paul II appeared before more than a million cheering, weeping Catholics in Mexico City, and declared a 16th-century Indian named Juan Diego, believed to be part of one of the most famous miracles in Christian history, a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. There are those within the Church, though, who believe the Holy Father has bequeathed to the Church a holy ghost.
That is, they claim there is no solid reason to believe that the Indian shepherd to whom the beloved Virgin of Guadalupe is said to have appeared in 1531 existed at all. It's not just the usual suspects making these claims, but also Catholic priests who once served at Mexico ...
Source: HighBeam Research, What Juan Diego Saw: The story of a new saint.