Carolina Pardo had a fever. She saw that her husband is a goat. She got so frightened. She thanks Saint Barbara because now she’s better and she doesn’t see hallucinations anymore.

Saint Jude Thaddeus, I thank you for saving me from a difficult situation, so I could hide myself and my buddy didn’t catch me with his wife in his bed. I offer this retablo for he didn’t find out that we cuckolded him. I swear I’d never do it again. Forgive me for the body is weak.

May 28

The Tellez Ruiz couple decided to play with hot wax during their love making. But it only caused serious burns to the husband. They thank Saint Pancras for his healing and promise not to go crazy anymore.

I thank the Virgin because she has always protected my husband Salomon during his dangerous high-wire act <…>

It was a cloudy evening and it was blowing hard. My wife had to give birth, but we lived far from the town. The long walk was exhausting, and my wife had a terrible pain. I picked her up in my arms. We didn’t want our little daughter to stay at home alone, so she came with us as well. It was difficult to walk against the wind. But thanks to Saint Raymond Nonnatus we managed to arrive to the hospital before my wife gave birth. And there our beautiful and healthy baby boy was born.

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

With this drawing your slave Juan Luis Rubert wants to thank you, Saint Francis, for the miracle. My dog Sandy bit the doña Mariela Luisiana del Corral’s big toe. I cared about the wounded woman with all my devotion, in your constant presence, Saint Francis. At that moment her husband arrived and witnessed this scene. He got furious and killed the dog but left Mariela Luisiana del Corral to me for ever.

Cuernavaca, Mexico
December 2013

The miracle worked by Saint Quiteria of Frexeiras that my husband is able to walk without crutches.

Quiteria Maria Medeiros
Capela, Alagoas

When I married Gregorio I didn’t know that besides being a kind man and a great lover he’s also a wonderful cook. He cooks almost every day, and I enjoyed all the food. I give thanks to the Virgin of San Juan for such a joy and for sending me my husband.

I give thanks to the Virgin of Guadalupe because my husband Toribio Amezcua is finally done with the binge.

Conchita Vela

Although I wasn’t beauty like my sisters, I married the handsome and kind man who loves me very much. All this thanks to the gift of cooking I had from Saint Paschal. So I always cook something delicious.

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

In 1920 in San Bernardino my buddy caught me on the mat with his wife. He started to shoot at us. I give infinite thanks to the Holy Child of Atocha because bullets didn’t hit me. She took them all.