I dedicate this retablo to the Virgin Mary because I don’t have a hairy back anymore thanks to electrolysis.

I came to work as a cook in one house. But the lady who worked there was jealous because my masters loved my food better. She secretly put pepper and salt in my dishes. I ask Saint Paschal for help. And soon enough, the injustice was discovered by my masters. They fired her, so now I’m very happy to cook for the family.

Cholula, Puebla
Eufrosina Diaz

Nobody wanted to buy the artist Pedro Macias’s landscape paintings. He thanks Saint Michael the Archangel for giving him the inspiration to paint ugly devils which turned out to be very lucrative.

Higinio Muñez was sad and drank a lot. He had a lot of nightmares and when he woke up he found himself in a deep pit filled with thorns. He couldn’t get out, but thanks to his prayers to Saint Helen for help, the saint brought his uncle who took Higinio out. Hygienic thanks for this miracle.

A mermaid wanted to hypnotize me but the Virgin protected me.

Sunday morning, a lost soul left her baby at my kitchen door. Since my husband and I lived alone and all our kids moved out, we adopted the baby. We thank the Virgin of San Juan for this marvelous blessing to have another baby.

I had a cockroach invasion in my kitchen. They climbed on the table when my friend Laura, who is fanatical about cleanliness, visited me. I almost died of embarrassment. I didn’t know what to do and I prayed to the Virgin of San Juan, so that she would help me in such a difficulty moment. Thanks to her divine intervention all cockroaches disappeared that night. I thank the Virgin because Laura didn’t part company with me after that incident. I love her very much and we have fun together.

Our daughter came to visit us and brought her fiancé. We got scared and had a nervous breakdown when we saw her with some odd freak who besides was a musician. We thank the Virgin of Zapopan because fortunately he turned out to be very conservative and serious young man who planned to become an accountant. We offer this retablo to the Holy Virgin.

The girl Alfonsina Suarez brings this retablo to Saint John Bosco thanking him because her injuries weren’t so serious when she swung too hard and fell off the uneven bars.

I had a lot of problems with my family. But the Virgin worked the miracle, and they accepted my homosexuality.

Florencio Lopez
Mexico, November 17, 1970

My daughter Laura loves to care about animals. Since she was little she fed all the stray cats and dogs that she found. She would’ve adopted them all, if I had permitted her. I think that being a veterinary is her vocation. I thank the Virgin of the Rosary because my husband has a good job and we can pay for her studies in the University to become a certificated veterinary.

Aldo Bossi thanks for surviving during the boiler explosion.

The hotel “Eliseo”, Rome
October 22, 1929

I thank the Virgin because I married a wealthy man and could quit my tiresome job. Now I can dedicate all my time to my cats and my garden and wait for the birth of my first baby without worrying.