I went to take the tray with the breakfast for my mummy who was sick. When I was coming down the stairs and seeing that she hadn’t eaten anything. I didn’t notice the Jorgito’s ball. I slipped and fell in a very bad manner. I couldn’t move. I prayed the Virgin of Zapopan to not remain paralyze. And she worked the miracle. I only felt some pain and had few bruises.

May 4, the boy Fidel was swinging and the rope broke. He fell and hit his head. His brother saw him lying like dead and prayed to the Virgin of San Juan so that everything would end well. And that moment, Fidel got up like nothing had happened.

Fidel and Julio Villacamacho
Puebla, Puebla — May 7, 1980

The Juanita Diaz’ daughter lost her balance and fell while walking out of the shower. She got hurt very badly. Juanita thanks the Virgin of San Juan because her daughter got no serious injuries.

When I was riding in the mountains I looked at the valley. And the devil disguised as a snake scared my mule, so we both fell down. I was falling and thinking that I’d die without having loved anyone. So I implored the Virgin of Guadalupe, and thanks to her my mule and I, we both fell into dense bushes. We didn’t brake any bone. I thank for that.

Araceli Lopez and her boyfriend had sex while drunk. Suddenly he slipped in the wrong hole and cause her tremendous pain. She thanks Saint Pancras with this retablo for quick healing because she couldn’t even sit.

The fisherman Sergio Mendes caught two enormous lobsters. He celebrated that with beer and passed out. He woke up with a claw on his balls. He thanks Saint Peter for he was able to save them. He promises not to drink anymore.

Lord of Chalma, thank you for helping me to survive the accident.

Mariano Torres
La Paz, Baja California Sur, 1964

I thank the Virgin of San Juan because when my bus with the passengers fell of the cliff, it got stopped by a tree.

San Juan de los Lagos
October 26, 1958

I thank the Lord of the Cross because it was only a dream and I didn’t fell off the trapeze in real life.

Facundo Peña, acrobat
Tijuana, Mexico, 1980
The “Union” circus

Luna Salcedo was rehearsing her act with the elephant and fell of his back. He fell on the rocks, hit the head and started to see double. She was afraid she would going to be blind. So she prayed to the Virgin of San Juan and now thanks because she sees even better than before.

Dulce Maria Hernandez and her children were picking apples in the garden. Dulce fell of the ladder. Since she was six months pregnant, she is very grateful to the Virgin of Zapopan because she fell on the big fat dog that was so lazy that it didn’t even move. Dulce didn’t get hurt and her fall was soft.

Rogelio Mendez and Gloria Lopez got drunk and went to the mountains to have sex. But he was so drunk he climbed up the nopal cactus. He thanks Saint Francis with this retablo for he got cured from the infection that he got after multiple pricks.

I thank the Virgin of San Juan for saving me from falling off the horse when we were passing by the field and a mouse scared my horse. I managed to grab the horse’s hair and to avoid an accident.

Grateful mrs. Bone
Mexico City, September 2004