Los Angeles’s Oldest Religious Procession to Be Held Sunday

It commemorates the 493rd anniversary of Our Lady of Guadalupe appearing to a Mexican peasant.

Participants wait to march in the 91st Procession and Mass honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Juan Diego, in the traditionally Latino community of East Los Angeles, in Los Angeles on Dec. 4, 2022. Mario Tama/Getty Images

EAST LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The 93rd edition of Los Angeles’s oldest religious procession will be held Sunday in East Los Angeles, commemorating the 493rd anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe to the Mexican peasant Juan Diego.

The Procession and Mass honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Juan Diego will begin at 10:30 a.m. at Our Lady of Solitude Parish then go through the streets of East Los Angeles. Its theme is “Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mother of the Eucharist.”