I dedicate this retablo to the Virgin Mary because I found a contact in the black market so I can exchange at a pretty good rate all the Jamaican dollars I had into sterling pounds, a much stronger and safer currency.

We thank the Virgin Mary for helping us select the best gym.

I thank the Virgin Mary for blessing me with the gift of being a dislocationist.

May your purity be blessed for ever, Virgin Mary. Thanks to you we have sold our house which we just bought shortly before. The house is cursed! Ghost, phantasms, skeletons and many others tortured me and my wife at night. I humbly thank you and bring you this retablo.

1953, Motul, Yucatan

We thank the Virgin Mary for we had made it to the other side without getting caught, although my brother Carlos caught the flu. Now, after 10 years in States, we got our documents and we aren’t illegals anymore. We ordered to build a new house for our mother who never wanted to go with us. That’s how much she loves her grandsons, so she preferred to stay with our sisters.

Agustin & Jose, 1956

I thank the Virgin Mary for protecting me while I as taking bath in the park. That dirty old man kept staring at me and ran over the sergeant Gurriato, which saved me from being hit instead.

Puebla, 1968

We dedicate this retablo to the Virgin because we won a 30 gallon can of our very favorite evaporated milk.

I dedicate this painting to the Virgin Mary because I got two beautiful horses that get along really well.

I thank the Virgin Mary because the ugly pimple on my armpit has finally vanished without blemishes.

I thank the Virgin Mary for giving me the inspiration to open a chiropractic school without being certificate to do so.

Thanks to the Virgin Mary I got an amazing gas-guzzler Hummer Limousine.

With the help of the Virgin Mary we became friends with three very famous wrestlers in Tampico.

Up until that day I had not been a believer, but the signs were too clear to be ignored and the poodle was cute.