Yolanda Campos went swimming in the laguna. She slipped and hit her head. She went to the bottom. Only thanks to the holiest intervention of the Virgin of the Rosary one fisherman noticed her and saved her before she would have drowned.

Aurelia Medina was walking very happy because she had bought two beautiful piglets at the market square. She didn’t notice a deep pit and fell into it. She prayed to the Virgin of Zapopan, and a peasant, who was passing by, took her and the piglets out.

I thank the Niñopa because the hipsters started to get interested in the products of small local farmers to prepare their tasty garnachas with organic food. So now my chinampas in Xochimilko, that I always had, help me to pay for the Estefany’s 15th birthday party.

Your faithful and devoted old chilango.
Xochimilko, Mexico City
July 2014

Oh, Virgin of the Incarnation, thank you for the marvelous miracle when you saved me from my fiancé who happened to be a pimp. He wanted me to work for him. I beg you, for the love of God, that he’d need came back to me and you helped me.

Laguera Rodriguez
Mexico, 1930

I was always followed by the cats when I went out. I thought it happened because I went to the market and they wanted some food. But then I noticed that they followed me anywhere. Maybe because I care about them, talk with them and sometimes, if I can, I leave them something to eat. I think they understand that I like them and that I always treat them with love. I thank Saint Francis for having a way with cats.

I dedicate this retablo to the Virgin of Lourdes for protecting me and my clerk from heartless bandits who on April 20, 1970, entered in the branch of the National Rural Credit Bank. They were armed, they tied us and they gag us, but they didn’t murder us.

The boy Pedro Lopez decided to blow the trumpet right in the ear of his sleeping father causing him hearing damage. The boy thanks Saint Pancras with this retablo for nothing serious happened and he only got whipped with belt.

Saint Jude, I ask you and don Cenobio to forgive me, but I had to kidnap Martina.

Javier Bueno

We thank the Virgin of Zapopan for healing our spotted cow. She was so sick after giving birth to her calf, we thought she was going to die.

Concepcion y Refugio Rosales, known as The Little Sparrows, from the bottom of their hearts, dedicate this retablo to the Virgin of the Solitude for endowing them with the gift of singing. Thanks to their voices the can help their family and they are much loved in the town.

Tlaxcala

Andres Ortega thanks the Virgin of the Solitude with this retablo because no damage was done to his house during the strong hurricane. He also asks to give him strength to help his less fortunate neighbors.

Ines Sanchez thanks the Virgin for miraculously saving her life.

Maria Antoniela Perez broke her back when she tried to reach the top shelf of the cupboard. The cupboard fell on her and smashed her. She and her parents, doña Luz and don Ramon, give thanks to the Holy Virgin of Zapopan because the girl marvelously recovered. And the doctor said she is going to be alright.