When a giant octopus attacked me I was miraculously saved by seagulls. Thank you, Virgin.

Daniel Santos

A big furious swine started chasing us when we were on our way to Silao. We thanks the Lord of Villaseca, for we managed to run away from it because the animal was running very fast.

October 23, 1955

The vegetable garden of the Rios sisters, Rosa and Catalina, was flooded with rabbits. They ate everything but the sisters didn’t dare to kill these little creatures of the Lord. So they prayed to Saint Francis to take the rabbits under his control. The Saint heard them and the rabbits never came back.

San Luis Potosi
June 3, 1969

The Felipe Gonzales’s horse was scared by a viper and in spite of all Felipe’s efforts fell down from the cliff. Only thanks to the miracle of the Virgin of Guadalupe they didn’t hurt themselves and didn’t brake the bones.

Joaquin Ramirez took his cows to drink water from the lake when suddenly an UFO appeared and abduct one cow. That cow wasn’t belong to Joaquin but to his friend. Joaquin thanks the Holy Child from Atocha because UFO didn’t abduct him and the friend believed him and didn’t charge him for the missing cow.

Texmelucan, 1969

The Reyes brother hated me because of the quarrel about borders of our lands. One day they made an ambush to kill me when I would ride my horse near by. But the Virgin of Zapopan always protected me and that day she gave wings to my horse. The horse galloped faster than ever before. I arrived to the village and hid in the church. So I saved my life.

There was an invasion of squirrels in my cellar. They were eating all my fruit. I tried to frighten them but they always returned. Only thanks to my prayers to the Virgin of San Juan she worked the miracle. So the squirrels disappeared and never came back.

The Feast of San Juan is celebrated on June 24. We pray for a good monsoon to bring us the necessary rains that help the plants and animals. When the rains start, the desert comes to life. The smell of the wet creosote in the cool breeze gives a welcome relief. Early the next morning worms of flying ants hover in the air. The creeks and washes flow into the Santa Cruz river and within days, everything is green.

Thank you, Virgin, for we have enough food for everyone.

2011

Antonio Pantoja gives thanks to the Virgin of Guadalupe for saving him from death when a lion attacked him during his lion taming act in the circus. He brings this retablo in gratitude.

January 6, 1985

The Death took me on her horse.

We thank the Virgin of Guadalupe for letting us find our donkey. So it wasn’t stolen form the place where we had left him tied while we were doing shopping.

Alberto Aguilar thanks Saint James with this retablo for receiving good money for three foxes he captured. These foxes caused damage on a ranch, and Alberto now is going to let them free in a distant place.