Jose Robles offers this retablo to the Holy Child Doctor for helping him survive after a heart attack. He also thanks because he has people who take care of him.

My husband Bonifacio became crazy after he had had a high temperature. He walked by house breaking all the stuff. I didn’t know what to do and I asked the Virgin of Zapopan to help me. Thanks to her intervention the sense of reality came back to my dear Bonifacio. Now he behaves like a normal person and doesn’t break anything.

My daughter had a strange disease. She couldn’t stay out in the sun. Because of that she slept by day and stayed awake by night. I prayed to the Virgin, and one day the witch, doña Clara, gave to my daughter an ointment. And now my daughter can go out in the daytime staying in shadow and even can go in school. I give thanks for that.

I want to thank, from the bottom of my heart, the Virgin of San Juan de Los Lagos for healing all my illnesses because I got into heavy hail storm on my way back home, when I had a long way to go.

Julio Espinosa Gonzales
16 March 1964
Doloras, Hidalgo, Guanajuato

I offer this retablo to the Holy Child of Atocha because my leg has been healed. I got it crushed by a wheel of the canon I was in charge of by the order of the general Felipe Angeles. It happened on the Grillo mountain when we were taking Zacatecas on the evening of July 23, 1914. The city was taken by my general Francisco Villa, and I prayed that my leg wouldn’t have get gangrene. Now I offer this retablo to tell about your favor.

Bartolo Coronel from Fresnillo, Zacatecaz
December 24, 1914

Juan Carlos and Sara love to have sex covering themselves with chocolate. But one day she caught an infection. Since no remedy helped her, she prayed to Saint Patrick. With his help she got cured. She thanks for that.

I was very ill. I had a fever. In my dream I saw the devil who came to took my soul. But the Virgin of Guadalupe send her angel to help me. So the angel and the devil played cards for my soul. The angel won, so when I woke up next morning my temperature settled and I was feeling better. I thank the Virgin for that.

We thank the Virgin of Zapopan for healing our spotted cow. She was so sick after giving birth to her calf, we thought she was going to die.

The little girl Rosita Morena gives thanks to the Virgin of Zapopan for curing her kitten who was so sad and didn’t even wanted to play with the yarn that it liked very much.

17 <…> 1969 hundreds of spiders started falling from the dry wood that was in front of the house. They fell on my little son Juanito and bit him. I entrusted him to Saint Michael the Archangel and the boy only had fever but recovered quickly. We dedicate this retablo to Saint Michael because he protected my son from the spider venom.

My donkey Clavelina got sick and I had to take the mule to go to the town to sell the flowers. The mule was very stubborn and bad-mannered. On the slope of the hill he no longer wanted to walk. No matter how much we pulled and pushed him, he didn’t move. Only after we asked Saint Francis for help we managed to made him go. So we arrived to the town and sold the flowers. Also I give thanks to the saint because he healed my Clavelina who is a very joyful and obedient donkey.

Francisco Marin liked to set things on fire. But one day he was caught after he had tried to burn a gas station. He thanks Saint Pancras because he was not only thrown in jail but also received treatment from his illness.

Leopoldo Morales fell down in the well and nobody searched him until the night because he was mute and no one noticed that he wasn’t around. His mother, doña Luz, thanks the Virgin of San Juan because her son didn’t drown and is already recovering from pneumonia.