I thank because my eyes are finally open and now I see everything!

A tennis player Jose Guadalupe Ramirez received a powerful blow in his eye with a tennis ball. It caused a retinal dissection and put his career in danger. He fervently thanks Saint John Bosco because it’s been cured.

Arturo Sanchez was cleaning the cages of his gamecocks, and on of them attacked him and almost pecked his eye out. He thanks Saint Charbel with this retablo because the eye was saved, and he promises to devote himself to something else.

Armando Garcia wanted to make a surprise night visit to his girlfriend but she got scared and sprayed gas in his eyes. He thanks Saint James, with fervent devotion, for he didn’t go blind, and he forgave her.

Thank you, Virgin, because you made me with light eyes. Thanks to that they let me in the clubs right away, I got a nice job and have a lot of chicks. Not like my poor brother whom you made with dark eyes.

Dominga Camargo brings the present retablo to the Child of Atocha thanking for her son didn’t lose his eye when he put a pencil in a fan.

Puebla, 1950

Juana Cisneros brings this retablo giving thanks for she wasn’t bitten by a giant spider with a woman face. It looked very horrifying but nothing happened to me.

Irapuato, 1939

Cristobal Rodriguez was in the field, and some horrible eyes appeared to him. They didn’t stop following him, and he was very much scared. But he implored the Holy Heart, and you delivered me.

Michoacan, 1922

The brothers Arnulfo and Armando were playing pirates, and one hit another’s eye with the sword. WIth this retablo, they thank the Holy Child of Atocha for nothing serious happened and it’s alright now.

I have a black pug dog named Lucky. He fought with another angry dog and lost his eye. I dedicate this retablo to the Virgin of Guadalupe because I know she, in heaven, would look after my Lucky’s little eye.

I thank the Virgin of Guadalupe for not losing my eye and going blind when I was gathering prickly pears and one fell down in my eye hitting me with thorns.

Timoteo Hernandez Lopez
July 16, 1968, Torreon

The mariachi singer Juan Jose Ruiz came to perform in a restaurant while being drunk. The audience got angry and started to throw food at him. He was hit in the eye. He thanks Saint Pancras for the recovery and promises to be more professional.

I thank Saint Liberata. When I was performing at the Plaza in Tabasco, the bull Fanfarron got me badly. But I was lucky—I got only one leg amputated and one eye removed. I’m recovering quite quickly so I could back to bullfighting as soon as possible.