Frida comes to Brooklyn!!! I thank the Virgin of Guadalupe very much for the current exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum called “Frida Kahlo: Appearances can be deceiving.” Her clothes and personal belongings illustrate her personality which was the focus of her art. I didn’t visit her Blue House during my staying in Mexico City but now it’s been recreated in Brooklyn, just in few steps from where I live.

Gerald Dilley \ Brooklyn, New York, 2019

On December 25, 2021 James Eddy woke up with covid so he petitioned Santa Rosalia, the patroness saint of plagues and San Roque, the patron saint of epidemics and disease, and he was cured. He rendered this retablo to commemorate the divine intervention and his subsequent miraculous recovery which occurred on January 1, 2022. Executed in the City of San Francisco on this 18th day of January in the year of our Lord, 2022.

James Eddy gives infinite thanks to San Cayetano, the patron saint of gamblers, for helping him win the $10 Matt Gonzalez bet.

San Francisco, California. May 24, 2021

Mr. Gordon Ruxton humbly dedicates the present exvoto to Saint Christopher in gratitude for giving him his protection all these years which he dedicated himself to travel in his truck by the highways of Kansas and Missouri, always coming back home to his family safely.

Wichita, 2018

Mercedes Salazar wholeheartedly thanks Saint Christopher for the miracle that her husband Alberto came back from the United States to spend Christmas and New Year with her and their two little kids. He was gone for a whole year, and they couldn’t see him and missed him very much.

Puebla

James Eddy gives infinite thanks to Saint Erasmus of Formia, the patron saint of indigestion, for resuscitating him after he slipped into a food coma from eating too much turkey dinner.

November 25, Covid-21
San Francisco, CA.

James Eddy gives infinite thanks to Cheron, the ferrymen of the River Styx in Hades, for transporting him back from the dead.

September 30, Covid-21
San Francisco, CA.

James Eddy gives infinite thanks to San Francisco de Assisi, the patron saint of animals, for saving him from a ferocious cougar.

September 27, Covid-21
SF, Ca.

This is San Expedito, the patron saint of procrastinators. I petition him to get shit done.

September 5, Covid-21
SF, CA.

This is San Pascual Bailon, the patron saint of cooks and kitchens. I petition him for a good meal. I love to cook.

September 10, Covid-21
SF, Ca.

I want to thank Our Lady of Guadalupe with the present exvoto for having met mr. Smith, the owner of the fields where we pick up tomatoes. He is a good man, and he treats us well, and he doesn’t exploit me or my fellows who work for him. He pays us excellent salary which I use to support my family back in Mexico.

Felipe Gonzalez — Florida, USA

My husband, who lives in New York, used to work in a building very close to the Twin Towers. That morning, September 11, I was very much worried watching the news about that horrible attack. I’m infinitely grateful to the Virgin of Guadalupe for protecting my husband who came out unhurt. I beg you, Holy Virgin, for the souls of those innocents who died.

This is San Lucas Evangelista, the patron saint of artists. I petition him every day to help me make good paintings. Sometimes I think he hears me. Sometimes I don’t.

September 3, COVID-21
SF, CA