Child of Atocha

Mr. Benjamin Soler used to see the image of a hanged man every night in his bedroom. Thanks to the prayers to the Holy Child of Atocha, he was saved from this nightmare.

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Agustin Robledo went to see the doctor because of a horrible ear pain. To his surprise the doctor found a cockroach living in his ear. Agustin thanks the Holy Child of Atocha for his recovery.

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1914, the train was attacked by the Villistas near Chihuahua. They took my wife and my mother-in-law. I hid myself and entrusted myself to the Holy Child of Atocha to whom I gave thanks because they didn’t see me.

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I was afraid of the dark since childhood. I couldn’t overcome it. One day I went to the cellar to get some oil, and the door was shut by a whiff of air. I was locked in the cellar. I couldn’t get out. It was dark, I started to see angry eyes, sharp fangs and hands that were about to grab me. I was losing my mind. Then I started to pray to the Holy Child of Atocha who became a light of sanity for me until my daughter came back and unlocked me.

Jose Andrade enjoyed doing bodybuilding. Because of that he started to inject steroids that made him very irritable and furious. He thanks the Holy Child of Atocha because he came to his senses and stopped using them so he can be in harmony with his family.

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Antonio Lopez thanks the Holy Child of Atocha for finding his cow after three days of searching it in the mountains.

October 18, 1985
Cuernavaca, Morelos

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When I was on vacation in Veracruz I met Martin. We had such a good time together that I fell in love with him. But I was afraid he would reject me. So I prayed to the Holy Child of Atocha for a miracle, and Martin agreed to live with me at my house. He knew that I’m not a woman, and still he accepted me as I am. Here I‘m showing the day we met. It is a year since that wonderful day.

“Don Juan” A. Flores
Polanco, Mexico
May 1979

By a miracle of the Holy Child of Atocha, Pedrito Pulido didn’t drown when he fell in the river.

Zacatecas, May 9, 1972
The Pulido Rojas family

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The boy Juanito Reyes thanks the Holy Child of Atocha because his mom is feeling better. She fell on the marbles that he forgot to put away. Juanito promises to be more careful.

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Petronila Romero offers this retablo to the holy Child of Atocha thanking him because thanks to his help and some punches her husband stopped going in the bar.

Tlaxcala, 1920

It was getting dark. I went with my wife Lupita in the field to scrape the agave and gather the maguey sap with the acocote. Suddenly we noticed a horrible animal with wings and long teeth. It wanted to attack us. We entrusted ourselves to the Holy Child of Atocha so that he would protect us. Thank God we managed to escape.

Zitacuaro, Michoacan
May 3, 1985

Federico Aguilar Aguascalientes

Thank you, God, for saving us from the chupacabra.


Acocote is a long gourd pointed at both ends, used in Mexico for extracting the nectar of the maguey.

In 1920 in San Bernardino my buddy caught me on the mat with his wife. He started to shoot at us. I give infinite thanks to the Holy Child of Atocha because bullets didn’t hit me. She took them all.

We lived happily with my wife Patricia all our life. But then she got insane. Her behavior was frightening. She threw stuff and even furniture when she was mad. And she lost her temper over nothing. I prayed to the Holy Child of Atocha. Thanks to him my sister gave to my wife some herbs. With those herbs, and also with some pills prescribed by the doctor, her madness was over. I thank for that.