Regino Suarez wanted to impress his neighbor and climbed a pole to save a cat. He’s infinitely thankful, with this retablo, to Saint Francis because he didn’t fell down, although he got scratched all over, but the girl granted him her friendship.

In 1940, in Barrio de los Sapos in Puebla, Remigio Gomez crashed his car into a light pole. He thanks the Child of Atocha because he only smashed his snout and lost his teeth.

Victor Peralta was painting the neighbor houses with graffiti. The neighbors got pissed off, tied him to a pole and showered him with paint. Victor thanks the Child of Atocha for nothing serious happened and promises to amend.

Ruben Torres thanks the Virgin of Guadalupe for surviving after being hit by a current while repairing the wires on a pole. He brings this retablo thanking the Holy Virgin for this favor.

January 25, 1990

The miracle of the electric utility pole.

I am able to bend lamp posts with ease thanks to the strength I get from Saint Therese.

April 23, 1963. I’m thanking Saint Jude Thaddeus for saving me from dying when I hit an electric pole and stayed several months in the hospital.

Gustavo Teran Morales
Guanajuato

Thank you, Virgin of Guadalupe, for protecting me. I had no light in my house, and since the electric company wouldn’t do anything, I decided to fix the wiring. While I was working I was hit by current and hanged on the pole. Thank goodness the pole strap kept me from falling.

Ernesto Castro
Mexico City, 1968

Pablo Vasquez brings this retablo to the Virgin of Guadalupe because he managed to climb on greasy pole and won a trip to Acapulco.

The cat of Ramona Morales climbed on a pole and couldn’t come down. He sat over there for two days, and Ramona, however hard she tried, couldn’t help him. So she prayed to the Virgin for help. And then arrived a man from the electric company. He had a ladder and he took the pussycat down. The cat was so hungry that he drank a litre of milk. Thank you, Virgin.

22 October 1968

Pepe «el Chango» (Monkey) was riding his skateboard when he saw a couple of beautiful bare legs on his way. Distracted by the view he smashed into a post. He thanks the Virgin because he only had his head hurt and didn’t become an idiot.