My daughter Luisa started sleepwalking. She went out by nights. I prayed to the Virgin for a cure, and the Holy Virgin gave me an idea to add some holy water to the Luisa’s milk. So now my girl doesn’t walk by nights.

Alberto Camacho became a widower. It hadn’t been a year when he got married again. But then his late first wife started to appear in the bedroom by nights. Alberto was scared and he prayed to the Virgin of San Juan so that she would make her soul rest in peace. The Virgin decided to help him, and the wife’s ghost never turned back again.

Lagos de Moreno
July 16, 1972

My daughter Carmela played laundress on a smooth stone on the lagoon shore. She slipped and fell in water sinking to the bottom. Thanks to the Virgin of San Juan the dog, who is very smart and swims very well, was able to save the girl before she would drown. I give thanks to the Virgin.

Lupe Martinez learned to drive a car and accidentally hit a fruit vender who crossed the road in front of the car. Lupe gives thanks to the Virgin of San Juan because the woman wasn’t injured and Lupe had only to pay for fruits scattered by the street. For this miracle she offers the retablo.

I want to thank, from the bottom of my heart, the Virgin of San Juan de Los Lagos for healing all my illnesses because I got into heavy hail storm on my way back home, when I had a long way to go.

Julio Espinosa Gonzales
16 March 1964
Doloras, Hidalgo, Guanajuato

[...] thank the Virgin for these marvelous moments. When we arrived on horseback to our house and his little brother and sister with his dogs came to give us a welcome, I felt like I was a part of him.

I give thanks to the Virgin of San Juan, because she saved us, so the rabid dogs, that we met behind the market, didn’t bite us.

August 5, 1949

I give thanks to the Virgin of San Juan for bringing a great love in my life. When I already thought that my heart was dry and that I would never love again, this wonderful man came to my life. He made my heart beat fast again, and all around me got flourished and illuminated.

When Adelaida Fernandez was coming back from the market, she was hit by the baker on the bike. The hit was so hard that she flew up in the air. She thanks the Virgin of San Juan because miraculously she fell on the lawn and didn’t get injured and only had some bumps.

March 9, 1968

Virgin of San Juan, thank you for all your favors. We went to celebrate the Town Day. We visited the church, and after we decided to have some snacks. My little girl carelessly ran to see the firework bull, and one of the petard hit her in the face. Her cheek was badly injured and cut. I took my girl to bandage her face. I was scared that she’d going to die. But thanks to Saint Jude {?) everything ended well.

Apolonia Gomez
Morelia, Michoacan, 1973

Luis Mendoza loved to play cards. But one day he didn’t pay, and the mafiosi broke his hand with a hammer as a punishment. Luis thanks the Virgin of San Juan for this rough lesson and promises to amend his ways.

Agustina Perez brings this retablo to the Virgin of San Juan thanking her because her boyfriend finally proposed her — that she could hardly wait.

Tlaxcala, 1917

On the Day of the Dead, Cleotilde and I went to the mass. We met skeletons who had got out to celebrate. We ran to the church and prayed some rosaries for the souls of the skeletons. We thank the Virgin of San Juan because when we left the church, the skeletons had already turned back to their graves.