One morning I went fishing in my small boat. Suddenly I hooked an enormous sailfish. I give thanks to Saint Peter because after many hours of efforts I finally managed to catch it. I sold it and earned a lot of money.

Teodoro Muñoz
Manzanillo, Coahuila

I bring this retablo to Saint Peter thanking him for my job. I sell coconut oil to the tourists on the beach. In addition to earning my money, I also enjoy applying the oil to the backs and legs of the beautiful foreign women.

Filomeno Hernández
Acapulco, Guerrero

The young man P. M. got so drunk and overdosed he decided to pass through the wall. He thanks for he was taken to the hospital after that accident. He promises to amend his ways and to get out of the bad habits.

One morning, my brother and I went fishing. Suddenly two sharks appeared near us. We turned gray with fright, but that moment we implored Saint Peter for saving us from such a deadly danger. Little by little the sharks began to swim away. We bring this ex-voto, with all our faith and devotion.

Jasinto and Aurelio Benitez
Tampico, 1970

The fisherman Sergio Mendes caught two enormous lobsters. He celebrated that with beer and passed out. He woke up with a claw on his balls. He thanks Saint Peter for he was able to save them. He promises not to drink anymore.

Juan Velasquez was water skiing in Acapulco, and a shark started to follow him. He thanks Saint Peter with this retablo for protection so the shark didn’t have him for dinner.

Bartolo and Jaime Aguirre give thanks to Saint Peter for an incredible fishing season. So now they are going to buy a new motorboat.

The fisherman Pablo Robledo was fishing when suddenly he got a giant squid in the net. The squid almost sunk the boat. Pablo thanks Saint Peter for he managed to cut the net in time.

Blanca Estela Romero offers this retablo to Saint Peter thanking him because she managed to get a job as a coach of killer whales in an american water park and she is doing well.

Ramon Cabrera thanks Saint Peter with this retablo because he didn’t kill himself when he was waterskiing and bumped into rocks near the beach.

I asked for a lifeguard job without knowing how to swim. I thought it wouldn’t be very difficult and I could meet nice girls on the beach. But one day I almost drowned trying to save a lady who, I thought, was drowning. But she was only doing some exercises. I thank Saint Peter because the lady knew how to swim and she saved me. So I’d better sell coconuts on the beach.

Cayetano Dominguez
Acapulco

Alejandro Chavez caught a shark. He though it was dead, so he put his hand in shark’s jaws. The shark bit him. Alejandro thanks St. Peter for saving his hand from a serious surgery.

Pablo Velez brings this retablo to Saint Peter in order to thank him for catching an enormous tuna with pretty basic fishing gear. With what they paid for the tuna, Pablo now has enough money to buy a new boat.