Luis Mendoza loved to play cards. But one day he didn’t pay, and the mafiosi broke his hand with a hammer as a punishment. Luis thanks the Virgin of San Juan for this rough lesson and promises to amend his ways.

I dedicate this retablo to the Virgin of Lourdes for protecting me and my clerk from heartless bandits who on April 20, 1970, entered in the branch of the National Rural Credit Bank. They were armed, they tied us and they gag us, but they didn’t murder us.

On August 21, 1956 when the couple Salinas Duran were going back to their ranch they were attacked by bandits. Don Jesus and his driver were severely wounded. Doña Maria Salinas and Rosa Perez gives tanks to the Virgin of Rosary because theirs husbands didn’t die from blood loss and now they are recovering.

September 14, 1919, on our way to Queretaro, we were attacked by bandits. They took all our donkeys with corn. Thanks to you, Virgin of Guadalupe, they didn’t kill us.

Genaro Rodriguez went to the town to collect some money and on his way back he was ambushed by bandits. They took all the money. Genaro thanks the Virgin because don Jasinto hadn’t yet payed for a calf, what would have been a big amount of money, and had payed only for chicken, what was not a big amount. He offers this retablo.

When I invoked God and Saint Quiteria from Frexeiras a legion of angels saved me from the clutches of an evil assailant.

01-11-2011
Joao Alberto Vasconcelos
Maceió, Alagoas

We were going to town to sell fruits when we were attacked by some bandits. But thanks to the Holy Spirit they saw that we had only fruits and no money, so they let us go without doing any harm to us.