A beautiful snake came to play with the animals. Thank you for it didn’t harm them.
1976
A beautiful snake came to play with the animals. Thank you for it didn’t harm them.
1976
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
The Holy Virgin of Guadalupe we thank. We thank for we met and knew each other on the road of the art. We share our knowledge and our work in order to save this precious tradition of the ex-voto, which tells us the history of our beloved Mexico. Because the art is a miracle of God.
Corner of the miracles, Mexico City
Elin Luque A. & Alfredo Vilchis
June 1, 2004. Tuesday
Retablo by Alfredo Vilchis
Thank you, Virgin, for giving me the gift of healing the animals in the moonlight.
Pedro, the Healer
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
Virgin of Guadalupe, I thank you for the miracle of saving my hand when I cut it working on making tacos. Now I’m back to work hard to provide for my wife and kids.
Hugo Vilchis
Mexico, 2006
Retablo by Hugo Vilchis
My aunt Honorata made me her only heir, but with one condition, that I take care of her cats. I never liked the cats, so I took it upon myself unwillingly. However, now I thank the Virgin of Guadalupe, because I realized what clean and cute animals the cats are. So now I not only have more money but also a nice cat company.
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
Miriam goes out to play with forest animals at nights. Thank Virgin, she comes back safe.
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
I went to USA as illegal immigrant to work. I missed my family so much, and I asked the Virgin of Guadalupe for a miracle to be with them. Few years later, I finally came back, at the height of the December holidays, to stay forever with my wife and my kids.
Retablo by Flor Palomares
We were having a picnic, when an UFO appeared. We thank, because the extraterrestrials didn’t take us with them on their planet.
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
When we got stuck on a railway track, the Virgin of Guadalupe sent us two farmworkers with a mule. They helped us to cross the track right before the train. We thank for that.
July 19, 1966
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
I thank you, Virgin of Guadalupe, for saving me during the terrorist attack on The Twin Towers.
September 11, 2001
Laura Equirtus
Retablo by Luis Vilchis
Viva homosexuality!
Gay. Faggot. Happy. Hooray!
Pedro Reyes thanks the Virgin.
Retablo by David Mecalco
Because of our lack of money, we couldn’t build a stable. And every time when it rained, my wife brought the cow in the house so that it wouldn’t get wet. I hated to see cow’s muzzle waking up. I prayed to the Virgin of Guadalupe for money for the stable, so now the animal sleeps over there.
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
Virgin of Guadalupe, I promise not to drink pulque nor mescal, or the death would take me. O, Mother Holy Virgin, help me not to get drunk again.
Retablo by Luz Cadena