The wrestler Black Colibri jumped over his adversary and fell on him having seriously hurting him. He thanks Saint Jerome for he got recovered and go out of the hospital. He promises to be more cautious.

I was doing laundry and fell asleep. Suddenly I was awoken by my dog barking. I opened my eyes and saw some martians trying to tie me and take me to their ship. I started screaming. The extraterrestrials got scared and ran away. I thank the Virgin of Zapopan for my dog woke me up in time and, I think, even bit those martians.

The newlyweds Benito and Georgina Gomez Vasquez thank the Virgin of Juquila for their dream to spend the honeymoon in Paris came true.

I was coming back home after buying a piglet, when a devil made my horse to stumble on the rocks. That devil had been following me for days, doing his shenanigans. There were a lot of cacti in that place where my horse stumbled. But thanks to the Virgin nor the horse, nor the piglet, nor I fell into them but landed on the grass. After that accident I bought a medallion of the Virgin of Zapopan, and the furious devil had to leave me in peace.

Saint Jude Thaddeus, I’m thanking you, from the bottom of my heart, for the luck of becoming a successful striptease-dancer.

Lucho Cano

Rafael Soriano dedicates this retablo to the Virgin of San Juan in gratitude for earning good money making portraits with crayon during the holidays.

Thank you, Saint Jude, for you favors. I went to study in the Monterrey University. I found an apartment. I had been living there for four months, when one day I was going out of the bathroom and saw the landlady’s son in my room. I was surprised and asked what he wanted and how did he get into my room. He told me he wanted to have sex with me. “Are you crazy?” I asked. Then he grabbed me and tried to throw me on the bed. He didn’t count that I’m doing karate. So I hit him so hard, so that he wouldn’t think to talk with me again.

Laura Garza, 1964

The housemaid Susana Fernandez couldn’t resist the charms of her master. She thanks Saint Raymond for she didn’t get pregnant and promises not to have affairs with married men anymore.

Catalina Rendon was singing on a stage wearing a mini skirt, when suddenly her pantyliner fell down in front of everybody. She thanks Saint Martha with this retablo for overcoming the shame.

Carlos Magaña, a sax player, thanks the Virgin of San Juan because his job gives him good money and every woman in the building where he lives is crazy about him and his music.

I thank God and Saint Francis of Assisi for the miracle of meeting the love of my life. I was 40 years old and thought that I was never going to marry. But then my old boyfriend came back from the United States and proposed to me. I thank God because we are very happy and have become the parents of a beautiful baby.

Juanita Lopez & Amador Ramirez
Guadalajara, Jalisco
December 12, 1986

A devil used to come to my dreams every night and tortured me. I prayed to the Virgin of Guadalupe, and she sent me an angel who drove the devil away.

My girl loved to practice taekwondo until one day she got knocked out by another girl who hit her in her face. She thanks the Virgin of San Juan for nothing serious happened.

Maria Telles