My daughters Carmita and Rosalia, instead of sleeping, secretly went to look on the newborn calf. When they arrived to the grove near the cattle-pen they saw the Weeping Woman who started to chase them. They arrived at home sweating from fear. I prayed the Virgin of the Rosary to cure them because even next two days they were shaking and pale. The Virgin worked the miracle, and the girls forgot about their fear. They are alright now.

Lord of Chalma, I thank you with this retablo. The headless man appeared to me, and I got very scared.

Lupito Gonzalez
January 10, 1939

I want to thank Saints Cosmas and Damian with this retablo for the miracle that the anatomy teacher Lupita de Barragan became passionate about my son Juan Luis and helped him to overcome his apprehensions and fears of flesh and tendons, and blood, and other things. So my son happily graduated as M.D. surgeon.

Cuernavaca, Mexico
December 20, 2013

When Timoteo Perez was gathering the maguey sap, he found himself in serious danger, because an UFO was going to abduct him. He prayed the Virgin of the Solitude and didn’t get hurt. He only pissed his pants out of fear.

Thank you, Virgin, because you heard my prayers for help me to kick the booze, although it was pretty scary.

I, Raulito Contreras Avila, dedicate this retablo to you, Virgin of Guadalupe, for chasing away flying animals with very angry eyes from my room. I’m living alone and I’m very weak. They really scared me because I am gay since I was little. But you helped me.

Tijuana — November 11, 1980

Juan Carlos Reynoso had a fear of heights. To overcome it, he got in parachuting. Wit this retablo, he thanks the Merciful Lord because he dealt with the problem.

The Ramirez Lopez family thanks Saint Jerome because their uncle turned out to be alive, although he scared the hell out of everybody when he awoke and rose from the coffin.

May you be blessed, my God and my Virgin of Guadalupe. One night I couldn’t sleep because I felt the presence of the famous Weeping Woman. I was so scared, and my husband, Amador Ramirez, was calmly sleeping and didn’t help me. I start praying, and suddenly I felt how instead of a fear, a peace came to my heart. Nothing bad happened to me.

Rosa Maria Lopez
Ranch Alegre, Jalisco, Mexico
November 2, 1966

The Weeping Woman is a legendary Mexican character, a ghost of a mother weeping about her dead children.

When my daughter and I were coming back home from the village of San Francisco, we took a wrong way and got lost. It was getting dark, and the night caught us halfway. In the night thousand of fiery eyes were looking at us from the darkness, and we heard horrifying noises. We give thanks to the Virgin of Guadalupe because an old man was passing by. He saw us and guided us to the right way. Afterwards we arrived to our village very quickly and without problems.

Because of financial problems, we had to move to the outskirts of the town to live with aunt Cleotilda. My girls were scared because on their way to school they had to go through the old, abandoned cemetery. There were a lot of horrific stories about the cemetery. They were so frightened, they refused to go to the school. But thanks to the Virgin of the Rosary my husband found a good job, so we can moved back to the town. We thank for that.

I thank St. Anthony because I married a widower, a father of four children. So now I have four kids without going through the horrors of giving birth, the sufferings I scared so much. I thank for this instant family. I loved them very much.

One beautiful night my boyfriend Pedro and I went to the cemetery so no one could see us, because my parents didn’t allow me to have boyfriend. Suddenly some skeletons appeared. We were so frightened, we ran away. We thank the Virgin of Guadalupe for we didn’t get sick.

Lupita Gomez
Tequila, Jalisco
November 5, 1972