Praying for the Virgin Mary’s intercession and being devoted ... but Juan Diego gathered a bouquet of beautiful roses, which he folded into his tilma, believed to be woven from agave fibers.

She placed roses in his cloak, or tilma, and instructed him to go back to the bishop and give him the flowers. When Juan Diego opened his tilma, an image of the Virgin Mary appeared. Inside the ...

so Mary instructed Diego to gather up a bouquet of roses blooming nearby. Diego wrapped the flowers in his cloak, returned to the bishop, and when he opened his cloak again, an image of Virgin ...