Why pilgrims come
A sacred place worth the journey.
The historic Franciscan parish of San Juan Bautista anchors the old center of Coyoacán and preserves one of the capital’s longest continuities of Catholic worship.
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The pilgrim’s guide
What makes this visit meaningful
Use San Juan Bautista as the sacred anchor of Coyoacán rather than seeing the district only through its secular attractions. The large parish complex preserves a long continuity of Franciscan and local Catholic life.
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Historic parish
Enter a church whose Catholic life reaches back to the earliest colonial decades.
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Franciscan inheritance
Remember the evangelizing order associated with the site’s first centuries.
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Sacred heart of Coyoacán
Let the parish reframe the old town as a living community of faith.
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