I bought cool old glasses on a market. But when I put them on I saw that all people were skeletons. I was scared. But when I took the glasses off it all came back to normal. When I wore them I saw only skeletons. I thank the Virgin for it happened because of the glasses. I wouldn’t want to see only skeletons all the time.

Rosita Martinez thanks the Holy Heart because since she began to read books of fantasy, she has marvelous dreams. When she grows up, she wanted to be a writer to write stories about unicorns, mermaids and dragons.

Leonardo Gutierrez was performing at the concert for Confederation of Unions and fell in love with a girl who turned out to be the union leader’s girlfriend. Leonardo thanks Saint Cecily for he wasn’t killed and only got both of his legs broken, but the girl stays with him.

This is ex-voto of thanks to the leaders of Soviet revolution. If it hadn’t happened I couldn’t have had highly qualified workers from east for next to nothing. I’ve already had three musicians from Kiev Symphony Orchestra working for me as stevedores carrying cement. Now I have a surgeon working on a crane and two Ukrainian women at the kitchen. They were ballet dancers back in their homeland. They’re nice-looking broads, it’s nothing wrong with their bodies, probably because of gymnastics <…>

I thank the Virgin of San Juan from the bottom of my heart for the miracle of winning my first mask for mask fight over The White Whirlwind. The fight was very difficult because my opponent had more experience than I did.

Gold Scorpion
Mexico City

I was doing my act on the wire when I suddenly had a strange feeling of solitude up there. I started to lose my concentration and, therefore, my balance. Then I felt invisible hand put me back in balance. I was able to get to the end. I know it was the Virgin of Guadalupe who saved me, because I always entrust myself to her.

February 17, 1962

A strange giant bird with teeth came every night to eat my chicken and rabbits. I protected them with the broom, but when I went to sleep, the bird always managed to stole some animals. I prayed to the Virgin of Guadalupe, and thanks to her intervention that prehistoric bird left my animals in peace and went back to the mountains where it had come from.

I spoiled my dog and let it eat at the table. But when I married a wonderful woman, I was afraid she wouldn’t allow my dog to eat with us. But she happened to have two well-mannered piglets and they also ate at the table. I thank the Virgin of San Juan because we are a very happy family now.

Devils came from the hell and stole our horses. They entered out village with certainly bad intentions. They terrorized the people. We prayed to Saint Michael the Archangel, and he get the devils back to the hell with his sword.

The kitchen was filled with corn demons. They we’re unbearably naughty, and we had no idea how to get rid of them. We thank Saint Paschal Baylon, because with our prayers and little bit of holy water we chased these damned demons away.

The fisherman Sergio Mendes caught two enormous lobsters. He celebrated that with beer and passed out. He woke up with a claw on his balls. He thanks Saint Peter for he was able to save them. He promises not to drink anymore.

I loved to go on the mountain to read. One day I was so captivated by the beautiful poems, I was reading without paying any attention. I went to the edge and almost fell of the cliff. But my dog stopped me by pulling my dress. I was saved. I thank the Virgin of the Rosary for such an attentive and smart dog.

Lord of Chalma, thank you for helping me to survive the accident.

Mariano Torres
La Paz, Baja California Sur, 1964