I saw a glowing light. I went to see what it was. Suddenly some strange creatures appeared. They began to tie me up with cords that looked like worms. I thank the Virgin of Guadalupe because I was able to escape and didn’t end as a guinea-pig for extraterrestrials.

Raul Rodriguez was a professional musician and played saxophone. But his neighbors always complained. They didn’t let him rehearse in peace, they even threw some things in his window. They didn’t like the music. The landlord even wanted to throw Raul out. Raul thanks the Virgin because his fellows musicians rented out a room in their house to him. Now he can rehearse without being thrown trash.

The girl Demetria Tiomitzi thanks Saint Anthony the Great because her cats got used to be bathed, back then they would scratch her while she did it.

Virgin of Guadalupe, thank you for liberating me from this bad woman who kept me bewitched. Thanks to you I’m fine and I’m looking for a new love.

Fidel
Oaxaca, Mexico, 1968

On a windy day, the sea waves brought me a handsome man who became the love of my life. I thank Saint Barbara for bringing to my beach the man who will be my husband and my partner for ever.

My mother and my grandmother taught my Carlitos to embroider. He created exquisite embroideries and was very enthusiastic about it. I was distressed and asked the Virgin of Zapopan to make so that my boy wouldn’t enjoy embroidery so much because if his father, who is a really macho, had found out that his son loved doing the women’s work he would’ve been furious. Thanks to the Virgin my son’s cousin taught him to ride a bicycle. Carlitos enjoyed it so much, he forgot about the embroideries.

That’s how we celebrated that night till dawn with the adelitas (women soldiers) who had taken Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, with the Zaragoza brigade. Thanks to our protectress, Holy Virgin of Guadalupe, the town was surrounded to my general Francisco Villa. Saturday, November 15, 1913, there was a clear victory. Look after our women who risked their lives for this cause.

Simon Trejo

March 18, 1958, Maria Luisa Hernandez was washing her son and slipped on a soap. She hit herself badly and had to stay in bed. She thought she’d never be able to walk again. In tears, she prayed to the Virgin of San Juan so that she’d heal her back and her legs. The merciful Virgin heard her, and April 22, Maria felt herself much better. Now she walks again and thanks the Virgin.

When Marina Martinez was swimming in the sea, she had a congestion because she went swimming after having eaten. She lost her senses and went to the bottom because she swallowed a lot of water. But thanks to her devotion to the Virgin of San Juan the Virgin sent dolphins to help her. The dolphins took her out of the water and brought to the coast before she drowned.

I thank Saint Clare because I met a fellow countryman with a sufficiently pretty and big truck so I can put on my sister, my wife, my eight children and even my goat during the parade in my town Villa Escalante.

My wife began to eat in the bed. I hated it because there were a lot of crumbs in the bed. Also she chewed it with so much noise that I couldn’t sleep or watch TV. But the worst thing was that I was on a diet. But thanks to my prayers to the Virgin of San Juan an ant army came to our bed attracted by the food. They bit my wife so she stopped eating in bed.

We thank the Infant Jesus of Prague because my husband swapped really bad fields with a black oil river for the gringo’s car.

My beauty drove the men mad. One day Rodrigo and Martin got in a fight over me and almost killed each other. I didn’t want to be a cause of troubles so I prayed to the Virgin of Zapopan. She worked the miracle, and Rodrigo fell in love with another girl. And I began dating Martin, whom I always liked more.