Efigenio Villa dedicates this retablo to the Virgin of San Juan for saving him from dying after being hit by a car with the failed brakes. So he got a second chance in life, and he promises to stop drinking.

Mexico City
November 25, 1990

May you be blessed, Virgin of Guadalupe, for saving me from dying when I recklessly got into car being totally drunk.

Antonio, Mexico City
September 16, 1975

After looking for my husband in every bar, I found him very drunk with his buddy the devil. Thanks, Virgin of Juquila.

Petra Lopez
Oaxaca, 1967

Enrique Perez fell deeply in love with his brother’s fiancée. He decided to drown his frustration in the liquor. He thanks Saint Anthony for giving him strength to moving forward.

Teodulo Fernandez got drunk and fell from a second-floor window right on a fence. His leg and his shoulder got pierced. He thanks the Virgin of Zapopan because he was saved by doctors. He offers this retablo as a testimony.

I was desperate because my son wallowed in vice and drunkenness. I implored our Merciful Lord, and he worked the miracle. My son stopped drinking with his pals and now he’s working.

Domitila Pascal
Veracruz, 1946

I thank the Virgin of san Juan because I wasn’t gored by a bull when I tried to bullfight being pretty drunk.

Juan P.
June 12, 1945

Doroteo Juarez used to drink a lot of mescal. One evening he saw a giant nagual in shape of dragon. The nagual asked for a drink, and Doroteo got so frightened that he promised to the Virgin of Guadalupe to stop drinking if she chase the nagual away. The nagual disappeared like smoke in the air. The Doroteo’s wife thanks the Virgin because her husband doesn’t drink anymore and his life is happier now.

The night of October 23, 1957, the Romero brothers were coming back home after having drunk in the town. They met a nagual. They thank the Virgin for they didn’t die of fear and the nagual didn’t attack them and let them go.

With this retablo I, Juan Luis (write with pencil), and Stefani (she writes with red color) are thanking you for the miracle on day 12, month 12, year 2013, at the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. If it were not your mediation, we could beat each other to death. Stefani got furious because I drank her last booze and left nothing to her. So she started to beat on my head with her rosary.

And after that we made love.

Mexico City
December 12, 2013

I thank the Holy Child Alcoholic for saving me from choking to death in my own vomit when I got drunk because my wife left me.

Luis Mauro, 14th February 2001

Petronila Romero offers this retablo to the holy Child of Atocha thanking him because thanks to his help and some punches her husband stopped going in the bar.

Tlaxcala, 1920

My husband was a heavy drinker, and God punished him with hallucinations. One day the hallucinations were so horrible and he saw strange monsters chasing him. He entrusted himself to the Virgin of Guadalupe, mounted the mule and left the village. God led him to the capital, in a place where several months later with Virgin’s help he was cured. He came back home cured from his madness, and he doesn’t drink anymore.

1939