Arturo Mendez thanks Saint James with this retablo for healing the pain he suffered after having carried too much cement on his head.

Pancracio y Teofilo Castillo, the agave farmers, thank Saint Isidor Labourer for a great miracle of saving their agave plantation. Their plants were in danger because of a terrible plague, and they could lose everything. But now their agaves consider the best ones in the region.

The municipality of Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico

Holy Child of Atocha, I thank you for helping me that moment when I was so close to death. After my adversary jumped upon me and kicked me in the chest, I had a heart attack. Holy Child, I thank you for I survived.

Eduardo Lopez
Mexico City, 1957

Six years after I became a widow, I married a prosperous watchmaker. But then I, being very nervous and accustomed to the silence, went crazy because of constant ticking and beating of dozens of clocks. I couldn’t sleep and I was always stressed. I even had a nervous breakdown. I thank the Virgin of Zapopan because my husband, who loves me very much, noticed my anxiety and took all those damned clocks from the house to his workshop.

My son Miguel got ill with a fever. I was worried because he didn’t get better. I started praying to the Virgin of San Juan. The night, she sent her angels to blow over my son’s bed so that the fever would go away. I saw them in my dream, and then my son woke up fresh and healthy.

I thank the Virgin for my partner is so sensible and he always take care of me when I need it the most. When I had arthritis and the pain made me suffer so much, his attention showed me how much I mean for him. And, with his love, I felt better. May our love be blessed.

Mrs. Bone
Mexico City — May 2003

The young Ernesto Sanchez was given a rotten sandwich. He had diarrhea for a few days, as a consequence. No remedy helped him. He thanks the Holy Child Doctor for his recovery.

Arturo Vasquez was lying ill in his bed when suddenly everything in the room got up in the air and started floating around. The cats got wings and began flying. His bed was floating too. Arturo felt giddiness and asked the Virgin to put everything down.

The Virgin had mercy upon him and made so he woke up in his bed. Although the cats were still flying, Arturo wasn’t. He thanks the Virgin for that.

Enrique Lopez signed in an erotic club. However, some months later he caught gonorrhea. He brings this retablo to Saint Charbel thanking him for the cure. He promises no to be so crazy.

Thank you Lord that I didn’t have to pay a reward as Moth came back after two months. He’s got dysentery and one ear missing but he’s now home and I won’t kick him anymore when he pees in my Christian Dior coat.

Steph. 2007

May you be blessed, Virgin of San Juan, for healing me from an infection I got from a prostitute. I also asked you so that my wife wouldn’t find out about this. I thank for that.

Felipe P.
Merced, 1995

My husband got ill, and the doctor said that he must stay in bed until he cured. My life became a real night,are. He asked me to bring him in bed some absurd things and after a while he didn’t need them anymore. Or he asked me to cook for him some complicated dishes, but then he left almost everything untouched. I couldn’t sleep because he wanted something even at night. I thank the Virgin of Zapopan because his illness didn’t last for long and he can get up now.

I had a slight fever, and the night I had hallucinations with the ghosts of enormous mosquitos. They were looking at me reproachfully, because I had sprayed them with insecticide. They wanted to bite me. I prayed Saint Quiteria for help, and the next day I had no fever. However, I ordered mosquito nets to put on the windows because I didn’t want to have any more visits from the mosquitos ghosts.