Ernesto Telles was caught by the police, and they tortured him thinking he was a criminal. He fervently thanks Saint Pancras, with this retablo, because he endured it and didn’t make a false confession.

Humberto Medina was caught by police. They tortured him with a bucket of urine. He thanks Saint Pancras with this retablo for he endured it all and didn’t say anything, because he was innocent.

1975, I met Senaido. I fell in love with his beautiful smile. I didn’t know he was a masochist, and I fell under his charm. But he began to torture me, every day. I bring this retablo to Saint Jude Thaddeus thanking him because Senaido deposit beat me anymore.

Aramis Beltran
Arandas, Jalisco

This is for you, Saint Sebastian, for saving me from Roger, a sexual maniac who invited me in his house. He knew that I was enamored of him. There he tied me. Then he beat, bit and tortured me. He almost killed me. Thank you for saving me. Now he is in prison.

Joaquin Salinas
Mexico, Las Lomas
September 8, 1990

I give thanks to the Saint Michael the Archangel because my sons ran away to the mountains and joined the Emiliano Zapata’s people to fight for our rights. They suffered injustice on the hacienda of a cacique, who thought he was our master and treated them like animals. Take care of my sons because they are kids who deserve to be happy as they should be.

Brigida Perez
Cuautla, Morelos
December 1912