My girlfriend’s parents didn’t like me visiting her. So I secretly started to climb a ladder to get to her balcony. But one night my mother-in-law accidentally pushed the ladder when she opened the kitchen window to scare some barking dogs away. I thank the Virgin of the Rosary, because my mother-in-law was smitten with remorse, and now, because of feelings of guilt, she let me visit my girlfriend whenever I want to.

The girl Maria Mendoza was taken in hospital after being hit during the piñata hitting. Her parents thank the Holy Child of Atocha because she got recovered. They offer this retablo, in sign of gratitude.

My twins sons are restless children. July 3, they ran from me and went riding the Jose Padilla’s red horse. It was a stubborn animal and it threw the children in a place full of rocks. I thank the Virgin, because miraculously my sons didn’t fall on the rocks.

A worker from the don Alejandro’s banana plantation was stung by a venomous snake. The doctor from the hacienda told that he had small chances to survive. But thanks to the prayers of Ana Luisa Hernandez, the wife of the worker, the Virgin of Zapopan saved his life.

From the bottom of my heart, I thank the Holy Child of Atocha for healing my right eye. I got injured it with nopal cactus thorn. Petra Muños, his wife, testified to that.

J. Jesus Araiza
June 5, 1939
San Luis Potosi

Saint Jude Thaddeus, thank you for your help. One day my husband came home in bad mood because a sheep fell of the cliff. My husband was drunk. He went on the kitchen and tried the chilaquiles I made. He got furious, he threw the pan saying that the food wasn’t spicy enough. I asked him not to get mad. But he grabbed my hair and kick me in the face. He broke my jaw. So I had it, and I kicked him out the house.

Victoria Mendoza
Pachuca, Hidalgo, 1975

Maria R. loved to be asphyxiated by her partner during the sex. She became so addicted to this, that one day he almost killed her. Maria gives thanks to Saint Pancras with this retablo for passing through this stage.

Ramon Cabrera thanks Saint Peter with this retablo because he didn’t kill himself when he was waterskiing and bumped into rocks near the beach.

May 24, 1951, in the morning, Jasinto Diaz was delivering bread, and he was hit by a car. He thanks the Virgin of Zapopan for he is recovering and for his legs didn’t get hurt.

I thank the miraculous Black Christ of Veracruz because I survived and didn’t lose my right hand when I was attacked by a shark while swimming in the open sea,

Veracruz — June 11, 1936
Ricardo Hernandez L.

Francisco Herrera Cabella fell of the tractor and didn’t die only thanks to the Virgin of the Sanctus.

Artemio Mendoza was picking coconuts on the beach and fell of a palm. He hurt his leg. He thanks the Holy Child of Atocha for the quick recovery.

Acapulco, 1937

Virgin of the Sanctus miraculously saved the boy Juan Sillero Gallego who was hit by a car.