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Juan Diego took her request to the local bishop, who was hesitant and asked for a sign from the Virgin. Juan Diego, who had converted to Catholicism some years previously, said that when the Virgin appeared to him again, she instructed him to gather roses in his cloak and to take them to the bishop as proof.