I bring the present retablo to Saint Michael the Archangel thanking him for his protection.

Puebla, 1915

I thank Saint Michael the Archangel, with the present retablo, because he always offers me his protection in every difficult situation.

Puebla, 1914

I thank Saint Michael the Archangel, with the present retablo, for all the protection and help he always gives me, since he is the patron of my house and my town.

Puebla, 1910

I leave this retablo as a testimony of gratitude to Saint Michael the Archangel for all the help we always receive from him.

Puebla, 1908

My bed used to go up in the air some nights. I didn’t know if it was a demon thing or what. I was very much frightened. But since I prayed a novena to the Virgin of Guadalupe, she looks after me and my bed doesn’t levitate. Sometimes it moves a little, but juste a little bit.

Ausencio Lopez thanks the Virgin of Guadalupe because his agaves gave a lot of pulque. He sold it and got money to support his family. Here he asks you, from his heart, to always bless them.

October 17, 1980

Tlahuac, Mexico City

My wife was a primary school teacher. She was teaching in second grade for many years but then she was moved to teach in third grade. She felt so distressed she began to give lessons in her sleep. And I couldn’t sleep listening about the monocotyledons and the dicotyledons. I couldn’t work either because of my lack of sleep. Then I implored the Virgin of Zapopan, and thanks to her my wife relaxed in few days. She doesn’t teach in her sleep anymore, and I can finally sleep peacefully.

I swear I won’t drink anymore. R. C.

I thank the Lord of Chalma for giving me willpower to stop drinking and regain my wife’s love and my kids’ affection who forgave me the pain I caused them with this damned vice of mine when I was wasting all my money in the bar.

Ramon Corona
Cuajimalpa, Mexico, May 10, 1959

Thank you, Virgin of Guadalupe, because I prayed to you so you could liberate us from all the plagues in 2020, and the presidents Trump and Bolsonaro were abducted by an UFO. Now there is only COVID-19 left.

I dedicate this to the Virgin of San Juan thanking her for delivering me from dying drowning in Rio Bravo. Thanks to David and Miguel, two Salvadorians, who saved my life. Together we managed to get to the United States and achieve the American dream.

Angel
Jalisco, Mexico, May 10, 2011

Cassandra dedicates this simple retablo to Saint Bruno giving him thanks for being the star dancer of the night club “Mamacitas” where she works every night and has very good salary which she, being a single mother, uses to give her little daughter a comfortable life.

Tecate, Baja California

I was gravely ill with fever and had some horrible hallucinations. The most torturing was the one with the death on spider legs who was stinging all my body. I felt so much pain and fright that I implored the Virgin of Guadalupe…

Emiliana Garcia

We are afraid of nothing. The Virgin looks after us.