I thank the Holy Child of the Luck for giving my son another opportunity to live on after he was declared terminally ill. He had a very bad disease, and I prayed with all my heart for his healing. I promised a retablo, and I fulfill my promise now because you granted the wish of a mother who will be forever thankful.

Tacubaya, Mexico City, 1958

Daniel thanks the Virgin of San Juan for his buddy didn’t notice him hiding under the bed when he cuckolded him with his wife. Daniel is very sorry and swears to not do that again.

Tacubaya, Mexico City, 1999

Antonio thanks the Virgin of Guadalupe because his dog El Canelo protected him from a robber who got in his house while Antonio was sleeping. So the dog saved Antonio and his family.

October 17, 1985
Tacubaya, Mexico City

Blessed Soul in Purgatory, I thank you for delivering me from my ailment. I went looking for a whore and I enjoyed her giving liberty to my man power. She made me, when I needed it most, feel youthful, in my age, and reliable in any bed with any woman who would like to prove me.

El Cumplidor (“The Performer”)
Tacubaya, Mexico City, 2008

Virgin of Guadalupe, we thank you for not letting me to lose my fingers when I slipped while grinding meat. I ask you to bless this butcher shop and don Joaquin who is very kind to me.

Eduardo Batista
Tacubaya, Mexico City
February 10, 1993

July 18 I walked out the don Niko’s butcher shop, and I was attacked by the Joel’s dog. When I saw the dog biting me, I entrusted myself to you, Virgin of Guadalupe, asking to save me and to not let me die from the bites. Don Panchito came to help me. I thank you and dedicate this retablo for I’m safe and sound.

Nicolas Vargas
Tacubaya, Mexico City
August 3, 1995

I thank the Virgin of Guadalupe for healing me after a dog bit my leg when I was walking out the butcher shop.

Pancha Ramos
Tacubaya, Mexico City, 1960

I offer this retablo to Saint Jude because he saved my father’s hand which he cut when while chopping the meat he turned to look at the legs of a girl. The hand wouldn’t heal. So I prayed you, and it healed.

His son Tono
Tacubaya, Mexico City
October 12, 2005

Mrs. Alisia thanks the Virgin of Guadalupe because her son Juanito is feeling well and his eye is all right. He played with the spin-top and hit himself in the left eye almost losing it.

January 6, 1990
Tacubaya, Mexico City

Virgin of San Juan, thank you because the doña Chole’s dog didn’t do any harm to me and only took sausages that my mother had asked me to buy.

Juan Manuel Nuñes
Tacubaya, Mexico City
August 1, 1980

Alicia thanks the Virgin of Guadalupe because her husband didn’t find out that she cheated on him with his buddy. She is very sorry and offers this retablo in gratitude for the favor. She swears not to do it again.

January 25, 2000
Tacubaya, Mexico City

Julio Flores offers this retablo to the Virgin of Guadalupe for saving him from dying when he was hit by a truck while selling tacos. He thanks the Virgin.

Tacubaya neighborhood, Mexico City
November 20, 1992

Delfino Rangel offers this ex-voto to thank the Miraculous Lord of Chalma for passing through a danger surgery on his head on December 20, 1930. He entrusted himself with all his heart and now thanks for the miracle.

Tacubaya, Mexico