Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Day of the Dead might sound like a solemn affair, but Mexico’s famous holiday is actually a lively commemoration of the departed.

Tepeyac Hill near present-day Mexico City had been site of a temple to the Aztec mother goddess Tonantzin. But by the time Juan Diego trekked there one morning 484 years ago this month, Montezuma's ...

In December 1531, an Aztec Indian named Juan Diego climbed a hill in Mexico that had long been home to a shrine to the Aztec mother goddess. There, Diego encountered the radiant apparition of a ...