I give thanks to the Virgin of Zapopan because my horse El Rojo (Red) got better after illness and didn’t die.

Jesus Torres
Guadalajara, Jalisco, 17 May 1949

Lucia Martinez bought a new dress and her first high heeled shoes. She dressed up and went with her little brother to the town square so that all the boys could admire her. But when she was going up the stairs one heel got stuck in the crack and she fell on her back. Lucia gives thanks for she didn’t fall on her brother, nor the dog. Although the stairs were high, Luisa didn’t hurt herself either. She only bruised her elbow. She gives special thanks because the heel didn’t break.

One warm evening I was swimming underwater on the beach in Ixtapa, Ziuatanejo. I was admiring the beauty of the sea when suddenly a shark started to chase me. And of course I saw the devil near by it. He told the shark to attack me. But I entrusted myself to the Virgin of Zapopan and managed to save myself.

I give thanks the Virgin of Zapopan. When a lightning struck near me and my sheep, we were only slightly burned but nothing horrible happened to us.

July 25, 1965

My husband Bonifacio became crazy after he had had a high temperature. He walked by house breaking all the stuff. I didn’t know what to do and I asked the Virgin of Zapopan to help me. Thanks to her intervention the sense of reality came back to my dear Bonifacio. Now he behaves like a normal person and doesn’t break anything.

We went fishing and saw dancing skeletons on the river-bank. We thank the Virgin because we managed to escape from there.

The Graciela’s puppy fell off the cliff but thanks to the Virgin he could hold out on a small ledge. With help of the Virgin of Zapopan Graciela could save him without falling down the danger abyss herself. She thanks with this retablo for saving her puppy.

October 4, 195* my donkey Peroso stumbled and fell down the slope of the hill. I was riding him and also fell down. I give thanks to the Virgin of Zapopan for I didn’t die and my donkey also survived, although it became more stupid after that.

3 October 1952, Manuel Campos played with his sisters and fell down the well. His mother, Maria Luisa Campos, gives thanks to the Virgin, Patroness of Zapopan, because he was saved and was just slightly hurt. She offers this retablo to the Virgin.

A bull came to the town. And when my little girls were coming back from the school, it started chase them. I thank the Virgin of Zapopan for they managed to hide in the house of doña Luca before the animal could hurt them. I thank with this retablo.

Our new neighbor had an enormous and angry dog that scared my cats. I was afraid that one day it could kill one of them. So I prayed to the Virgin of Zapopan for protection, and thanks to her the neighbor didn’t stay for long here. He found a much better house on the other side of the town. He moved there, delivering my cats from his beast.