Every night, a nagual came from under my bed and scared me. I prayed to the Virgin of Guadalupe, and the monster didn’t appear anymore.
October 1983
Every night, a nagual came from under my bed and scared me. I prayed to the Virgin of Guadalupe, and the monster didn’t appear anymore.
October 1983
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
There was a fire in our house on May 3. I was on the third floor, and I thank the Virgin of Guadalupe because me and my cats were saved by a fireman. Everyone was saved, and the fire was extinguished promptly.
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
I became a sleepwalker. I was afraid I might have an accident while sleep-walking. But the Virgin worked the miracle and made my cats protect me. When I went to a dangerous place, they began to meow loudly and I woke up avoiding the danger.
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
We committed a heavy sin, trying to bewitch the Fulgencia’s husband. We danced ecstatically and did all exactly how doña Panful had taught us to keep him in love. We were dancing around the fire, when the charcoal began to meow devilishly and the horrible creature appeared to us. We started to pray the Virgin of Guadalupe at once, asking for forgiveness.
Francisca, Fulgencia and Petronila Suarez
Retablo by Medora García
My wife became a real threat when she drove. Every time she got in the car I prayed the Virgin of Guadalupe so that she’d protect her and other people. However, June 23, 1967, she hit a jelly vendor. Thank to the Virgin he didn’t get hurt and my wife had only to pay for the jelly.
Retablo by Selva Prieto Salazar
Gregorio Aladero went to the desert to eat peyote. He thanks the Virgin of Guadalupe because, although he had strange hallucinations, he wasn’t frightened and didn’t succumb to paranoia. No insect, no snake bit him. He had a lot of wonderful discoveries during his trip, so he feels happy.
Retablo by Luz Cadena
Pedro and Ramon are happy and love each other. Thanks to the Virgin.
Mexico City
Retablo by David Mecalco
— You, infidel dog! And with my best friend!
— It’s not what it seems to you…
Señorita Noemi Gonzalez thanks the Virgin of Guadalupe because on December 3, 2013, she read the messages in her husband’s phone and found out that he was having an affair with her best friend. Since then she sent him to hell and lives very happily without him. Amen.
Retablo by Donovan
Thank you, Virgin of Guadalupe, for helping me giving up this bad habit. I was constantly drinking this soft drink, so I even began to see strange things.
Licha
Oaxaca, Mexico, 1990
Retablo by Rogelio Peña
I offer these flowers and this retablo to the Virgin of Guadalupe, as I promised, for my husband Tiburcio came well through a dangerous surgery on his head.
Lucha Vidal
Cuajimalpa, Mexico City — December 12, 2000
Retablo by Daniel Vilchis
When my husband Juan Jose died, I was sad and couldn’t find any consolation. We loved each other so much, and I couldn’t stand the thought of not seeing him again. I asked the Virgin to let me see him. And she gave me that. So now every Day of the Dead, I put the altar and bring the offerings, and then my husband appears for a few seconds. So I can keep his image in my memory and find strength to live on without him.
Retablo by Selva Prieto Salazar
Maria Hernandez decided to drown herself because of love pain. But thanks to the Virgin she was saved in time by a fisherman. She ask God to forgive her and thanks the Virgin for saving her life and her immortal soul.
Retablo by Maya Prieto Salazar
My husband’s first wife was totally mad. She died. But when I married him her ghost began to appear everywhere, even in the tureen. She scared me a lot. But thanks to the requiem mass and to my prayers to the Virgin of Guadalupe her soul rests in peace now. And I feel much more comfortable.
Retablo by Miguel Hernández