Virgin of Juquila, thank you for giving me courage to defend the pig of my mother-in-law, when my husband and his mistress tried to take it.

Inocensia
Oaxaca, Mexico, 1969

November 2, the brothers Cosme and Basilio Trejo went to the cemetery to drink. There they met a mister sitting on a grave who wanted to give them a chest full of gold so they could continue to go on with their vice. Suddenly, they noticed that it was a dead man who was speaking with them. They implored Saint Benedict for protecting them so nothing bad happened to them. They promised to cut off drinking and to respect the dead.

Oaxaca

I dedicate this retablo to the Lord Jesus Christ because thanks to him our uncle Alfred turned into a bull and now he will not bother us anymore.

Oaxaca, 1969

Maria del Rosario Solana dedicates this humble retablo to the Virgin of Juquila thanking her for she participated in the celebrations of the Guelaguetza. Since she was a little girl, it was her dream to dance representing her community.

Oaxaca de Juarez, Oaxaca

I give thanks because I fell and hit my head while being under the influence of liquor. When I came back to my senses, I saw the image of the Virgin of Los Remedies who cured me.

Matatlan, Oaxaca, 1981

I dedicate this retablo to Saint Cornelia because I had a car accident but nothing at all happened to me or to my car, in fact it runs much smoother now.

Oaxaca, December 1979

Virgin of the Solitude, I thank you for giving me courage to deal with all sort of clients working here in “The Hell” as a whore.

Julia
Oaxaca, Mexico, 1962

My husband couldn’t perform in bed. Preoccupied, we asked Saint James the Apostle for a solution. We decided to try the medicine called viagra. It worked. Now we’re very happy and very much in love like when we were young. We thank for that.

Casilda C.
Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, 2005

I thank you, Virgin of Carmel, for giving me this body with which I have a job and no end of clients.

La China
Oaxaca, Mexico, 1978

All the whores, we thank you, Virgin of the Rosary, for having job and clients and for making money by the sweat of our brow.

Oaxaca, Mexico, 1969

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

Saint Anthony, thank you because on my summer vacations I met the love of my life and I only think about him.

Arturo T.
Oaxaca, Mexico, 1979

Thank you, Virgin of Guadalupe, because I understood that the woman is just like the devil. That’s why my wife is a bitch.

Jasinto Peña
Oaxaca, Mexico, 1966