Holy Virgin, may I, even drunk, not forget you.
2011, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacan
Holy Virgin, may I, even drunk, not forget you.
2011, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacan
Retablo by Emmanuel Espín
I went to the mountains to gather wood. I was about to eat my juicy chicken when the Bony Death appeared and asked me for the half of my chicken. With all my heart, I implored the Virgin of Guadalupe. The horrible apparition sat down to eat in silence and then disappeared.
Eustaquio Cortez
Retablo by Medora García
Frida’s ghost keeps appearing in her workshop. It go on painting and partying. Virgin of Guadalupe, let her rest in peace. The dead into the pits, the living to enjoy.
Retablo by Luz Cadena
Daniel thanks the Virgin of Guadalupe for saving him from dying during a dangerous surgery on a ruptured hernia. He was between life and death and now thanks for the received favor.
January 25, 1985
Tacubaya, Mexico City
Retablo by Daniel Vilchis
Thanks. I was able to do my best magic trick. Thanks, V(irgin of) G(uadalupe).
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
Thank you, Virgin, for the miracle of curing me from a deadly illness.
Pedro Morales, 11–Nov.–90
Retablo by David Mecalco
Nayely thanks the Virgin of Guadalupe for granting her her health after she was stabbed by a client when he was paying her. Now she’s back at this corner to work as a prostitute and she begs you wholeheartedly to protect her.
1985
Retablo by Daniel Vilchis
We were brought to a very strange king. Thanks for he didn’t hurt us.
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
I’m thanking, with all my heart, the Virgin of Guadalupe for keeping our family tradition of knitting. My mother and grand-mother were weavers and they taught me since I was little girl. My serapes, huipils and rebozos are highly valued among the foreign tourists who buy them when they visit my town.
Obdulia Trejo ~ Chiapas
Retablo by Gonzalo Palacios
To you, Virgin of Guadalupe, I entrust to rest the lost souls who appear in the bar.
Retablo by Luz Cadena
Virgin of Guadalupe, I entrust my boyfriend Cayetano Macias to you, look after him because he’s gone in a six-month trip.
Esperanza Acevedo
Retablo by Jorge Bonola
I thank the Virgin of Guadalupe for letting me arrive in time to not allow my kitty to make a mistake listening the indecorous offers from an ugly stray cat who had approached her. My kitty is very refined, and I want her descendants to be from a pedigree cat, — not from any cat. I’m going to find a fiancé worthy of her.
Retablo by Selva Prieto Salazar
El Santo thanks the Virgin for the miracle of winning the wrestling championship.
April 21, 1968
Retablo by David Mecalco