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I thank the Holy Death for her favors. What a fear I got when I was told that my son was found in a grave with other people. I saw a newspaper article about this. And that moment, my boy came home. I felt so happy. He wasn’t home for a few days, and I though he’d really died—one of the corpses looked a lot like him. My son went with his friends to Veracruz without telling me.

Margarita A. G.
Guanajuato, 2008

A friend offered his car to Roberto Gutierrez but forgot to tell that there was a corpse in the trunk. Roberto was held by the police. He entrusted himself to Saint Jude, and after long questionings he was acquitted of the crime. The guilty person paid for his crime. Roberto brings this retablo in gratitude for that.

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The young man Francisco Garcia thanks Saint Francis because he got a job in the sewer cleaning at the capital. The thing are going well, although he often finds dead animals and sometimes even human corpses.

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“He gave his life so you could live.”

— said mr. Crayencourt to the factory employees that cold morning while they were looking at the young heroin addict’s corpse. He had been in charge of money-laundering from drug traffic at the factory where they worked.

December 2003

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