Pedro Gomez thanks the Virgin of Guadalupe for saving his brother Jesus form dying when he was hit by a truck with failed brakes.

Mexico City
November 2, 1965

Jorge Sanchez thanks the Virgin of the Soledad for saving him from dying when he was repairing the car in his workshop and it fell on him, although he got hurt very badly.

The little Agustin Romero thanks Saint Augustine with this retablo for helping him to receive good marks in the school. Thanks to that his parents bought him a toy car.

In order to get to my job I always had to run behind the minibus. And the worst part was to endure the mistreatment from the drivers. Besides, the minibus was always overcrowded. I bring this retablo to Saint Jude Thaddeus thanking him for the miracle that I could buy a little used car. So now I feel better and stopped suffering in the public transport.

Obdulia Reyes
Mexico City

The young lady Maria Elena Gutierrez’s boyfriend was very jealous. He even threatened to beat her. She thanks Saint Francis for ridding herself of him since he was hit by a car and died. She asked to forgive her for being glad about it.

I dedicate this retablo to Saint Cornelia because I had a car accident but nothing at all happened to me or to my car, in fact it runs much smoother now.

Oaxaca, December 1979

It was very late at night when my sister Lourdes and I were coming back from the movies. We were followed by some skeletons in a red car. They asked us to have a ride. We got scared and ran away, because not only they were dead men but also dead drunk. We thank the Blessed Sacrament for we escaped from these ghosts.

I thank Saint Clare because I met a fellow countryman with a sufficiently pretty and big truck so I can put on my sister, my wife, my eight children and even my goat during the parade in my town Villa Escalante.

We thank the Infant Jesus of Prague because my husband swapped really bad fields with a black oil river for the gringo’s car.

My wife became a real threat when she drove. Every time she got in the car I prayed the Virgin of Guadalupe so that she’d protect her and other people. However, June 23, 1967, she hit a jelly vendor. Thank to the Virgin he didn’t get hurt and my wife had only to pay for the jelly.

It was getting dark, when an enormous and horrible ghost appeared to us on a desert highway. I didn’t know what to do. I closed my eyes and entrusted myself to the Virgin of San Juan. She drove our car through the ghost. When I opened my eyes, the ghost had disappeared. I thank the Virgin for saving us from this crying creature.

On our way to Tepoztlan, we met a group of green martians. They wanted to stop us. But thanks to the Virgin of Guadalupe we escaped, so they didn’t catch us.

October 16, 1967

My personal life was a real chaos. I was sad and depressed. But then my uncle gave me his old jeep. I thank the Virgin of Guadalupe for he did so. Because now, with sun in my face and the wind in my hair, I have no depression, and the speed makes me feel free and happy.