Help me, Virgin of Guadalupe, and heel my leg so I could play soccer again.
Retablo by Jorge Bonola
Help me, Virgin of Guadalupe, and heel my leg so I could play soccer again.
Retablo by Jorge Bonola
For most of the time, my husband is a very boring man. But I thank the Virgin of Guadlaupe for having heard my prayers. Now, some nights, my husband turns into a red ardent demon at night and stops being boring for few hours. It compensates all the routine days.
Jimena Pacheco
2nd of June 1979, Mexico City
Retablo by Unknown artist #1
One October night, I went to sing a serenade to my girlfriend. I was singing to her and heard enthusiastic applause. When I turned back, I saw skeletons cheerfully applauding me. My girlfriend and I got very scared. Thanks goodness, her window was opened, so I jumped into her room, although we had some problems with her parents after because of that. I thank the Virgin to not leave me to the bony dead’s mercy.
Retablo by Luz Cadena
Marito Reyes is happy to be homosexual and thanks the Virgin.
November 21, 2012
Retablo by David Mecalco
My father didn’t like that I was going out with Raul. But we loved each other. So we kept dating, but we met at the cemetery at night so nobody from the town would see us. One of those nights, we saw a couple of skeletons. They came out of their graves, and he was swearing her his eternal love. We were so overwhelmed with what we saw, the next day, I announced to my father that if he wouldn’t allow Raul visiting me at home, I’d run with him (?). Thanks to the Virgin of Guadalupe he understood me, so we can date openly.
Retablo by Luz Cadena
I thank the Virgin of Guadalupe for sending into my life such a good friend and thesis director.
With love, Itza
Queretaro, 20/10/17
Retablo by Itzayana Tarelo Licea
My fiancé came to visit me. He brought his musicians, and we danced till the dawn. Thanks for he didn’t take me with him.
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
Thank you for I’m done with this habit of dressing as a woman.
Luis
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
I, Angelica Pilar Relles, dedicate this ex-voto to the Virgin of Guadalupe because I work as a whore in Merced, and there are robberies, the police, pimps, clients, illnesses in my life, and the Virgin helps me.
Merced
January 9, 1979
Retablo by Rafael Rodriguez Contreras
The Suarez brothers, Ernesto and Pedro, were fighting at the final of the local boxing tournament. That boxing match was so intense it ended with tie. Both brothers received the rewards. They thank the Virgin of Guadalupe for this achievement.
Retablo by Gonzalo Hernández
When a demon’s face came out of the wall I felt uncomfortable. I thought it appeared because I had been flirting with a pharmacist behind my husband’s back. I prayed the Virgin of Guadalupe to forgive me after such a terrible punishment. Thanks to the Virgin this giant demon doesn’t appear anymore.
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
My husband told me that he was going to paint our house with a friend’s help while I’d be visiting our daughter and grandsons in Guanajuato. But when I came back I found that the friend was Pedro Rosas, an old fashion hippy, and that he had convinced my husband to paint the house with psychedelic colors and images. Our house was a nightmare. There were eyes looking from the walls. I thank the Virgin of Guadalupe because I convinced my husband that all that was insane. Now, after repainting all with white paint our house is inhabitable again.
Retablo by Miguel Hernández