I liked my neighbor, and she responded me. But we were secretly seeing each other for she had a grumpy and violent father who didn’t let her to have a boyfriend. One night I climbed to her room to see her, and her father caught us by surprise with a pistol in his hand. I thank Saint Benedict for illuminating me to pretend a sleep-walker. With his divine help, her father believed it, so I saved my skin.

Nepomuceno Diaz
Guanajuato, Mexico

My son Luisito became a sleepwalker and started walking on the roofs. I was scared he might fell and kill himself. I prayed to the Virgin of Zapopan so he would stop walking in his sleep. The Virgin, in her infinite grace, made the miracle, and Luis doesn’t sleepwalk anymore. I give thanks.

March 1931, don Carlos Prieto lost his job. He was afraid he would be thrown in jail for a theft occurred in his old office, he began sleepwalking. His wife pray to the Virgin so that everything would clear up and her husband’s name would be cleared. May 12, the Virgin of Zapopan made the miracle—the real thief was discovered, and don Carlos got his job back and received a compensation. They give thanks.

My daughter Carmina turned into a sleepwalker. I got up at night and watched her so nothing bad would happen. Some time later her twin sister Leonor also began sleepwalking. They went in different directions so I didn’t know whom to follow. I was afraid if I’d go after one girl, something would happen with the another one. I prayed to the Virgin of Zapopan, and they both stopped sleepwalking in the same time. I thank for this miracle.

My husband Juan began walking at his sleep. I couldn’t sleep because I went after him and looked so that the dogs wouldn’t bite him because they growled and barked at him. My husband kept walking and even got to the railroad. I was scared that he might be hit by a train. I thank the Holy Child of Atocha because thanks to his miracle my husband doesn’t go outside anymore and walks around the bedroom.

My daughter Josefina began sleepwalking. She went out and wandered around the town. I was afraid that something would happen with her, and because we couldn’t always look after her I prayed to the Virgin pf Zapopan for help. The Virgin worked the miracle. And since my daughter became the Ruben Magaña’s girlfriend she stopped walking in her sleep. We thank for this miracle.

I became a sleepwalker. I was afraid I might have an accident while sleep-walking. But the Virgin worked the miracle and made my cats protect me. When I went to a dangerous place, they began to meow loudly and I woke up avoiding the danger.

My son Antonio began sleep-walking. One night he went out and almost fell in the ravine. Only thanks to the Holy Virgin I was able to stop him in time.

I offer this retablo to the Virgin of San Juan for saving my boy. Now he stays in my mother-in-law’s house recovering from his illness.

Maria de la Luz Rosales de Perez

Since my wife started her diet, she began sleepwalking at the nights. She went to the kitchen and brought cookies, cakes and fruits in the bed. When she finished with this, she went to take more. In the mornings she didn’t remember her night adventures and thought it was me who brought all the food. I thank the Virgin of Zapopan because my wife finished her diet because by her opinion she became notably thinner. And she stopped sleepwalking.

On her third year in the boarding school, Dorita Martinez started to sleep-walking. She and her little sister Sandra prayed to the Virgin of Zapopan for curing Dorita because the nuns had told that if she wouldn’t stop sleep-walking they’d send her back home before the end of the school year. And Dorita was bored in her village. They thank the Virgin because she got cured.

Guadalajara, Jalisco
June 9, 1959

My husband Jose Juan was a sleep-walker. Since he slept naked, he ran out at night naked to dance in the corn field. I was afraid that something might happen to him or he would run to the town and somebody would see him naked. I was ashamed to ask the saint for help because of his nudity. Then I prayed to Saint Lucy, because she is blind and couldn’t possibly see my husband. She made a miracle, and now Jose Juan sleeps at night and doesn’t run.

My daughter Luisa started sleepwalking. She went out by nights. I prayed to the Virgin for a cure, and the Holy Virgin gave me an idea to add some holy water to the Luisa’s milk. So now my girl doesn’t walk by nights.