I dedicate this retablo to Saint Barbara for protecting me while I was surfing for the first time in the middle of a huge wave.

Nicolas Hernandez offered this retablo to the Virgin of Guadalupe because she saved him from being eaten by the sharks when he was surfing at the beach while on honeymoon with his wife. When I noticed the danger, I entrusted myself to you and now I’m alive to tell about it.

Nicolas and Patricia from Mexico City
February 14, 2001