We were dragged by the current when the river burst its banks and flooded the town. We implored the Virgin of Guadalupe to protects us from this tragedy. I managed to climb a tree and saved my family from dying drowning. More people who were in danger sent to us by the nature were saved. The Virgin protected us. I bring this retablo, eternally thankful.

Thankful family, Chiapas, 2007

My husband and I were riding to the La Aurora ranch to show her new grandson to my mother-in-law, doña Eulalia. On our way the clouds darkened the sky, and the thunderstorm began. Suddenly a lighting hit a tree just in front of us. We thank the Holy Virgin of Zapopan for protecting us. The lightning didn’t hurt us and only burnt my husband’s eyelashes. The baby got scared, but we arrived to La Aurora safe and sound.

The trees talked and we got very scared. We prated the Virgin and saved escaped safely.

Roberto G. wallowed in drugs. One day he was so depressed he tried to hang himself on a tree. But the branch broke off. Roberto considered it a divine sign. He thanks Saint Jude Thaddeus for his recovery.

I wanted to impress my neighbor whom I was attracted to. I climbed up a tree to bring her kitten down totally forgetting that I have a fear of heights. I thank Saint Pancras for the firefighters arrived to save me because I was so scared I couldn’t move. The cat meanwhile had come down giving me a great embarrassment. I promise not to pretend to be brave anymore to avoid being a ridicule.

Benito Segura
Morelia, Michoacan

The fireman German Linares went up a tree to save a cat but the cat attacked him instead. He almost lost his eye. German thanks Saint Charbel with all his devotion for the recovery.

A bull started chasing Ramon Mendoza. Running away, Ramon climbed up a tree, but the bull hit the tree so hard the whole tree shook. Ramon thanks the Virgin of San Juan for the tree was an apple-tree so he could eat apples all that time while the bull was waiting for him down. The bull stayed all day, and only when the dark came some workers helped Ramon. He thanks for that because his legs and arms got numb and he couldn’t stay any longer at the tree.

August 15, 1972

Luis Ramirez, a boy, used to steal the oranges from the neighbor until one day he fell off the tree and broke his arm. He thanks the Lord of the Wonders for this lesson and promises to not steal anymore.

My son Luis didn’t like to take a bath. He alway ran away and climbed at the trees. I prayed desperately to the Virgin of Zapopan so my son would let me wash him without making so much troubles. And the marvelous miracle happened—Luis began to love taking a bath. Now he doesn’t want to get out of the water. I thank the Virgin.

Catarino Chavez was carrying wineskins with aguamiel near Cholula when he got caught in a strong thunderstorm. He was passing under a black cherry tree when a lighting struck into it. Catarino entrusted himself to the Virgin of Guadalupe. Neither he nor his donkeys got hurt. He thanks for that with the retablo.

1917

The Holy Child of Atocha saved me and my horse from a lighting that struck in a tree near us. We got singed a little but nothing serious happened to us.

August 21, 1966

Hugo Vasquez got a new car as a present from his parents. And right away he smashed against a tree. He thanks the Holy Child of Atocha with this retablo because he didn’t hurt although he stays without a car now.

On my son Raul’s birthday party his older brother Luis climbed on a tree in the garden to fix piñata. He fell down and hit his head on the rocks. I saw him unconscious and wounded and I entrusted him to the Holy Virgin of Zapopan. Thanks to the Virgin the boy got better, didn’t lose his sight and didn’t became fool. I offer this retablo to the Saint Patroness.