Jane Frances de Chantal was born in Dijon, France. The mother of six children (three died shortly after thay were born), she was widowed at the age of 28. She met Saint Francis de Sales when he preached at the Sainte Chapelle in Dijon and was inspired to start a Catholic religious order for women, the Congregation of the Visitation. She died at the Visitation Convent, one of the convents she founded, in Moulins and was buried in Annecy.

Juan Bernardino was one of two Aztec peasants alleged to have had visions of the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1531.

Guadalupe Victoria, born José Miguel Ramón Adaucto Fernández y Félix in the state of Durango, served as the first President of Mexico from 1824 to 1829. Born in Tamazula, Durango, he studied Law in the Colegio de San Ildefonso. In 1811 he joined the revolution proclaimed by Miguel Hidalgo and fought under José María Morelos y Pavón. After Morelos' execution he fought in Oaxaca and Veracruz. After his defeat near the town of Palmillas, Veracruz, …

Miguel Sánchez was a Novohispano priest, writer and theologian. He is most renowned for the 1648 publication of "Imagen de la Virgen María", a theological interpretation of the 1531 apparition of the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Guadalupe that many contend is the first written documentation of the event. While he has been credited with originating the cult the attribution is unlikely given that the chapel at Tepeyac dates to the 1550s and the "Tepeaquilla, …

Miguel Mateo Maldonado y Cabrera was an indigenous Zapotec painter during the Viceroyalty of New Spain, today's Mexico. During his lifetime, he was recognized as the greatest painter in all of New Spain. He was born in Antequera, today's Oaxaca, Oaxaca, and moved to Mexico City in 1719. It is thought he studied under the Rodríguez Juárez brothers, but he may have been trained by José de Ibarra. Cabrera was a favorite painter of the Archbishop and of the Jesuit order, …

Saint Juan Diego (1474 - May 30, 1548) was an indigenous Mexican who reported an apparition of the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1531. He had a significant impact on the spread of the Catholic faith within Mexico. The Roman Catholic Church canonized him in 2002, as its first indigenous American saint.

Luis María Martínez was the Catholic archbishop of Mexico and a member of the "Academia Mexicana de la Lengua" ("Mexican Language Academy"). He was born in Molinos de Caballeros, Tlalpujahua, Michoacán. A philosopher of the scholastic tradition, his focus on the ultimate nature of things led him to theology. He was also a writer of spiritual poetry. While his traditional values provoked his criticisms of some aspects of Mexico's modernization, …

S. Clay Wilson (July 25,1941-) is an American underground cartoonist and central figure in the underground comix movement. Wilson is known for aggressively violent and sexually explicit panoramas of "lowlife," often depicting the wild escapades of pirates and bikers. He was an early contributor to Zap Comix, and Wilson's artistic audacity has been cited by R. Crumb as a liberating source of inspiration for Crumb's own work.

Judith Grace González Hicks is a well-known Mexican television personality. Born to a Mexican father and an Irish-American mother, Judith Grace became the first woman from her native state of Nuevo Leon to win the national title of Miss Mexico in 1981 and represented her country in Miss Universe 1981. Until 1997 no woman from Nuevo Leon, Mexico had won the national title since 1981. She currently hosts her own talk show, "Casos de Familia" (Family Stories), …

Most Rev. David Allen Zubik (born September 4, 1949) is the 11th Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Bishop Zubik was ordained a priest in the diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on May 3, 1975. On February 18, 1997, His Holiness Pope John Paul II appointed him as the auxiliary bishop of Pittsburgh. On February 18 of the same year, he was appointed titular bishop of Jamestown and ordained a bishop on April 6, 1997.