Pascasia Lopez bring this retablo thanking the Holy Child of Atocha for she got to know Frida the painter. I’m also thankful to Frida for helping my son to finish the primary school.
Mexico, 1952
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Pascasia Lopez bring this retablo thanking the Holy Child of Atocha for she got to know Frida the painter. I’m also thankful to Frida for helping my son to finish the primary school.
Mexico, 1952
Retablo by Gonzalo Hernández
Frida asks the Virgin of Guadalupe that Diego wouldn’t be such a womanizer.
Coyoacan, Mexico City
Retablo by Luz Cadena
When I watched the movie “From dusk till dawn” I completely fell in love with Salma Hayek after seeing her dancing with the snake. She became my platonic love. With this retablo, I thank the Saint James the Apostle because after many year of admiring her I finally could see her in person on a red carpet of one of her films. Few minutes I spent near her was the most marvelous moment of my life.
Francisco Ortiz \ Mexico City
Retablo by Gonzalo Palacios
As a consequence of beating the fuck out of her mother-in-law Sebastiana Montiel was taken to the jail. She thanks Saint Pancras because the artist Frida helped her to go out of the jail.
Puebla, 1939
Retablo by Gonzalo Hernández
1939, Rancho de la Rosa, Puebla, my son and his horse fell, and he badly injured his hip bones. He thanks Saint Pancras that the artist Frida came and helped to cover the expenses of his treatment.
Retablo by Gonzalo Hernández
Bernabe Lopez thanks the Holy Child of Atocha with this retablo for making so he could met the most famous band in the world—the Beatles.
Retablo by Gonzalo Hernández
Ernestina Villafaña brings this retablo to the Merciful Lord thanking him because the artists Frida and Diego keep staying together as usual.
Mexico, 1950
Retablo by Gonzalo Hernández
Look, if I loved you for the hair,
now, when you’re bald, I love you not.
I bring this retablo to Saint Jude Thaddeus in gratitude for my friend Frida, the painter, has got an improvement and is having a positive attitude.
Mexico, 1949
Retablo by Gonzalo Hernández
Maria Teresa Gomez, faithful to the Holy Child of Atocha, brings this retablo thanking for having met in person the painter Frida Kahlo at the “Arronte” hotel in Puebla.
Retablo by Gonzalo Hernández
With the present retablo, I thank Saint Jude Thaddeus because they’re taking into account and recognizing the Mexican talents in the movie industry more then before, like in the case of my fellow compatriot Guillermo del Toro who won the Oscar for the best director of the fabulous movie “The Shape of Water”.
Mexico
Retablo by Gonzalo Palacios
Maria de los Angeles Chavez asked, with all her faith, Saint Pancras for the reconciliation of her friends Diego and Frida. As he made so, she brings this retablo as gratitude.
Mexico, 1939
Retablo by Gonzalo Hernández
While walking in the park, Yolanda Robledo had the fortune to met none other than the artist Frida herself. She thanks the Virgin of San Juan with this retablo for such luck.
Puebla, 1943
Retablo by Gonzalo Hernández
Carolina Robledo, faithful to Saint Charbel, brings this retablo as a testimony of gratitude for seeing her friend Frida very happy with her pets.
Mexico, 1946
Retablo by Gonzalo Hernández