It was getting dark, when an enormous and horrible ghost appeared to us on a desert highway. I didn’t know what to do. I closed my eyes and entrusted myself to the Virgin of San Juan. She drove our car through the ghost. When I opened my eyes, the ghost had disappeared. I thank the Virgin for saving us from this crying creature.

Maria Hernandez decided to drown herself because of love pain. But thanks to the Virgin she was saved in time by a fisherman. She ask God to forgive her and thanks the Virgin for saving her life and her immortal soul.

There were some strange plants growing in my flower pots. They seemed exotic, so I let them grow. I thank the Virgin of the Rosary for I found out in time that they eat animals. I tore them out before they ate my cats or—who knows—maybe even me.

My son Luis didn’t like to take a bath. He alway ran away and climbed at the trees. I prayed desperately to the Virgin of Zapopan so my son would let me wash him without making so much troubles. And the marvelous miracle happened—Luis began to love taking a bath. Now he doesn’t want to get out of the water. I thank the Virgin.

Saturday night, my friend Luisa and I went to see a horror film. After the movie we went in a dark alley and there we saw with fear the vampiress flying towards us. She was about to attack us, but I grabbed the crucifix that I wore on my neck. The monster got scared and ran away. We ran to my house and locked ourselves inside till the next day. We thank the Virgin of San Juan for the vampiress didn’t suck our blood out.

I used to cook delicious pork chops or ham and eggs for my family because I thought these are very nutritious dishes. But one night some pigs with wings appeared to me. They looked at me in an accusatorial way. I got scared and implored Saint Quiteria to protect me from the pigs. I promised I’d cook only chicken breast and fish fillet and I’d even make eggs without ham. I thank the Saint because the pigs never come back to look at me.

My son Antonio began sleep-walking. One night he went out and almost fell in the ravine. Only thanks to the Holy Virgin I was able to stop him in time.

I offer this retablo to the Virgin of San Juan for saving my boy. Now he stays in my mother-in-law’s house recovering from his illness.

Maria de la Luz Rosales de Perez

The sky became filled with UFO. We were scared they’d attack us and would abduct us for their experiments. However, they didn’t land but lined up and suddenly disappeared moved by a superior power. We all felt a sense of relief, and we thank the Virgin of San Juan for this strange and wonderful sight.

May 25, 1950, the day of my daughter Maria Luisa’s wedding, she had a nervous breakdown. I prayed the Virgin of the Rosary to bring my daughter to reason. I thank the Virgin for the wedding wasn’t cancelled.

My son Ramon Campos kept bad company and began to drink. I prayed to the Virgin of Zapopan to bring my son to the right path. August 1950, the Virgin made the miracle, and my son changed for better.

Samuel Rodriguez fell in love with two mermaids. They bewitched him with their songs. He didn’t eat, didn’t sleep, he didn’t work but spent all days long at the bottom of the lagoon until one day he saw them eating with their huge mouths full of teeth. He thanks the Virgin of the Rosary because it snapped the monsters’ spell.

The Castro sisters went to gather wood and fruits in the mountains. They didn’t notice how they approached the damned cave filled with the demons and their satanic beast. The girls were scared. They entrusted themselves the Virgin of San Juan. They started to walk away very slowly because they say if you’d run the beast would attack you. They thank the Virgin for getting home safe and sound.

A mermaid fell in love with my fiancé Jose Luis. She got so jealous, she grabbed my hair trying to take me to the bottom of the sea to drown me. I thank the Virgin of Zapopan because she gave Jose Luis enough strong to pull me out, so I wasn’t taken by the mermaid.