A cowboy Pancho Garcia brings this retablo to the Holy Child of Atocha fervently thanking him because he finally found the lost white bull his hateful buddy borrowed from him.

Puebla, 1911

Saint Francis, we thank you because we harvested all our crops and raised enough money to get married.

Maria and Benito
Puebla, Mexico, October 4, 1997

Tired of insults and abuse, Raquel Garcia grabbed her mother-in-law by the hair and beat her with a stick. She thanks Saint Pancras because the old lady didn’t kick the bucket and doesn’t bother her anymore.

Puebla, 1917

I deeply thank Saint Magdalene for letting me put my rooster in the circus, considering that the audience is already tired from spontaneous performances at the fair. Besides, I don’t like cockfighting. I feel the my roster Ray would be much happier with his friends the elephant and the giraffe. With sincere devotion, Placido Domiguez from Quecholac, Puebla.

2011

A seamstress Domitila Betansos brings this retablo to the Virgin of the Solitude giving her thanks because she met the painter Frida who gave her a great present—a sewing machine that she lacked so much.

Puebla, 1939

Thank you, Virgin, for saving my buddy and me from demons of evil.

December 21, 1990, Puebla

I, Pilar Marmolejo, leave a testimony for such a strange event. It happened on July 18, 1975, when I was preparing to go to sleep. What a surprise it was to find a demon in flesh lying in my bed. With a sinister smile, he said that he’d like to have an intimate encounter with me. I immediately implored to the high benevolence of the Holy Virgin and kicked the devil out from my bed and my house by punching him with a broom.

Tehuacan, Puebla, 1976
Mexico

Sebastian Gomes gulped too many pulque and fell down. Since he didn’t put his arms in front of him, he smashed his mug into the floor and cut it with the broken glass shattered there. He thank Saint Judas for his face has been healed up with no marks left.

Puebla, 1918

At the basketball championship, Tereso Arellano hurt his heel. He implored Saint James, and it healed, and his team won. He brings this retablo giving thanks.

Puebla, 1943

Dominga Camargo brings the present retablo to the Child of Atocha thanking for her son didn’t lose his eye when he put a pencil in a fan.

Puebla, 1950

Bonifacio Menendes had a great fear of spiders. One day many of them appeared in his room. His implored Saint Patrick, and all the spiders disappeared. He fervently thanks for this favor.

Puebla, 1928

Boy Arnulfo Fernandez fell into a pit full of snakes. His mother thanks Saint Nicholas for nothing bad happened.

Tehuacan, 1945

Silvino Rivera thanks Saint Pancras with this retablo because his friends Diego and Frida don’t forget about him and visit him in his pulqueria-bar, and he finds them very glad.

Puebla, 1945