Odilia Coyotl used to sell tamales near by the Church of St. Macarius, and she fell in love with a priest. Some time later he left the church, they got married, and now they even have kids. They thank the Holy Death for all the favors and promise to visit her altar for five years.

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Doña Rosa de Hernandez thanks the Virgin of the Rosary for bringing her daughter Marina to reason, so she finally accepted a proposal. She was almost 28 years old and was single, upon the pretext of studying or that nobody from her suitors is worthy of her. She even dumped a fiancé right at the altar.

We dedicate this retablo to Saint Sebastian because we were made one for another. When our bodies meet we make love again and again, many times, drowning in pleasure.

Mr. Felt and Mrs. Bone
Mexico, April 2003

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I thank the Virgin of Guadalupe for I arrived right before this naughty priest rape my boy when I sent him to confess. I ask God to punish this damned priest.

Anastacia Perez Castillo
Mexico City, 1951

Enrique Perez loved to go to prostitutes. But one day he got drugged and was left naked and tied up in the motel. He thanks Saint Pancras for his wife didn’t divorce him and promises to amend his ways.

I was a victim of the others’ pleasures, because of a forbidden passion. I was playing with fire without thinking about the consequences. And now I’m paying dearly for it.

The sinner

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Gustavo Suarez enjoyed spying on his master’s daughters while they were taking bath in the river. He thanks Saint Pancras with this retablo because when one of them noticed him, she didn’t report on him, and now they’re lovers.

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I thank Saint Anthony because Rosita Perez accepted my proposal of marriage, although she is a delicate flower and I’m just a rude wrestler.

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Gudelia Morales dreamt about being a great figure skater. She thanks Saint Martha because her dream came true, although she had to move to United States for it.

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I was coming back from a party when I met a couple of bastards. They wanted to beat me for being dude. I entrusted myself to you, Virgin of San Juan, asking to not let them do harm to me. Then a man arrived and defended me.

Ricardo “The Charisma”
Minas de Cristo, Mexico City
May 17, 2000

Antonio Huerta and his wife Dionisia thank Saint Jude Thaddeus because their pig gave birth to the piglets and they didn’t die like always before. They offer this retablo for the favor.

January 11, 1985

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Some bastards came to sing serenade to my daughter when she was home alone. They wanted to seduce her, but thanks to the Virgin of San Juan’s intervention I came right in this moment and chased them away with bullets. Fortunately, I didn’t shoot anyone, only scared them. My daughter didn’t lose her honor, and I thanking for that with this retablo.

Mario Nuñez P.
Texcoco, Mexico, 1947

Virgin of Guadalupe, we dedicate this retablo to your honor for helping us to descend from the Iztlazihuatl, when my brother Paco fell into a crevice of the volcano. He almost died but we entrusted ourselves to you and came back save.

January 3, 1990

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