I’m eternally grateful to the Virgin of Guadalupe for saving my wife when she had birth and no one was around to help her. Not knowing what to do I appealed to you. We were coming back from the Basilica where we asked for your blessing as we do every year. Suddenly my wife started to give birth. One woman and her daughter Lupita who worked at the market helped her. My wife was alright, and my son was born safely. I thank you for our fortune and dedicate this retablo to you and to the woman and her daughter. I’m going to name my son Jose Guadalupe because he was born on December 12, 1930, at 12:30.

Anselmo
Chimalistac, Mexico
December 24, 1930

December 12 is the feast of the Apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe.