When I was lying on the sun, I saw strange, absolutely gray people. I was curious, I followed them and saw a mud. Overcoming my fear, I also rolled in it. And—a miracle!—the pain in my joints was gone! I thank the Angel for guiding me to this magical source.

God in the highest, thank you because you protected our parish priest when the authorities were looking for him because they said he’d raped some people when they were children. But I know that he didn’t do it by evil because he did it to me also and I know he did it with love because the holy father is very kind and not in bad faith. That’s why you looked after him because you’re also very kind.

All our friends and relatives came to our wedding. Besides that, dozens of doves flew over to celebrate with us our union which is only to tell the world how big our love is. From now on we are going to live for each other in a small house, and we will keep on being happy like we have been.

Help me, Saint Jude, to correct the character of my wife Linda Ortiz.

Victor Paz

I thank the Virgin of Guadalupe for letting me arrive in time to not allow my kitty to make a mistake listening the indecorous offers from an ugly stray cat who had approached her. My kitty is very refined, and I want her descendants to be from a pedigree cat, — not from any cat. I’m going to find a fiancé worthy of her.

The nurse Bartolo Garcia was suffering a lot at his job because he didn’t like to apply enemas. He implored Saint Zosimas and, since he was changed, thanks with this retablo.

Puebla, 1927

My life was very boring and tedious until I began to dream that I had wings and I flew in the sky full of stars. I thank the Holy Spirit for sending me these wonderful dreams. Now I am happy and more optimistic.

Ostap from Berdichev thanks Saint Philip because that night when he had few too many in the restaurant “Mlin” (Mill) and went to pick up ladies who turned out to be the wives of the gypsy baron, the baron had three important meetings so he gave only a flick on the nose to the tourist and refrained from further argumentation.

Ostap Pshonka — Montenegro, 2015

I dedicate this retablo to Juan Diego for avoiding that my buddy caught me making out with his wife, because that damned brown-skin girl is so hot. While at it, I ask you for the strength to make more pirouettes with her, without my buddy seeing me stuck in her pussy.

Roberto Garcia / Veracruz, 2018

El Santo thanks the Virgin for the miracle of winning the wrestling championship.

April 21, 1968

My boyfriend Jasinto and I were secretly seeing each other by the river for our lovemaking because my daddy didn’t let me have a boyfriend. But the other day, while we were making out, we saw someone passing by. I thank the Holy Lord of Chalma for it was only my grandfather who cannot see very well, so he didn’t notice us. Otherwise, things with my family would have gone very terrible for me.

Lupita R. ~ Morelia, Michoacan

September 25, at the celebration, Carlota Valdez ate 12 tamales, 8 tacos, 2 pozoles, a capirotada and two times chicken with mole. For this sin of gluttony, many little red devils came that night to punish her. They pitilessly pinched her wit their tridents. Then she repented of her great sin and begged the Virgin for forgiveness. The same moment the Virgin of Zapopan scared the devils away, and they disappeared.

Thanks, Virgin, because after having walked till my friend’s feet bled he finally found a house near the central station where we two could live. In this way he saved me from the house of the narcos where I had lived for a year and he saved himself from the love he had lost in the house where he had lived with his dog before.