Since my fiancé Jose Fransisco went to work to the North and I didn’t receive any news from him, I started to think he had left me for ever. I still loved him, but nevertheless, I agreed to marry Ramon. But I kept praying to the Virgin so that Jose would return. And on the day of the wedding Jose Fransisco arrived right in front of the church doors. He took me on his horse and we rode away. Ramon chased us for quite a long time, but at the end he conceded defeat and stopped following us. Two days later we got married. I thank the Virgin of Guadalupe for the happiness.

I thank the Virgin of Zapopan because on my wedding nobody noticed that I had been pregnant for months. And thanks for a very nice wedding.

June 16, 1964 Maricela Morena was trying on her wedding dress at the house of her grandparents. The dogs were very irritated by that dress and attacked her. Hearing the material tearing apart Maricela start praying desperately to the Virgin of San Juan. The Virgin worked a miracle so the dress didn’t tear. Maricela gives thanks for that.

I thank the Holy Sacrament because I married the man of my dreams and our wedding was so beautiful. Then he took me on his horse for a romantic ride from the church to our new house.

I was sure that my daughter Felisa wouldn’t get married as easily as her sisters because she was very thin. I prayed to Saint Anthony, and he worked the miracle. My daughter had the best wedding in our family. She married Arturo, the Jose Padilla’s son, who came back to the town after finishing his studies of medicine at the capital. I give infinite thanks.

Gilberto Morales became a widow. He didn’t wait a year before getting married again. But then the ghost of his first wife started to appear by night. Gilberto prayed to the Virgin of Zapopan for resting the late wife’s soul in peace. The Virgin heard him, and after November 14, 1954, the ghost didn’t appear any more.

My fiancé Genaro and I had no money for the wedding. But he had a marvelous idea to get married during the Town Day holiday. So we had musicians and fireworks, and so many fun. And it cost us almost nothing. We thank the Virgin of Guadalupe.

I thank St. Anthony because I married a widower, a father of four children. So now I have four kids without going through the horrors of giving birth, the sufferings I scared so much. I thank for this instant family. I loved them very much.

Saint Jude Thaddeus, thank you for all your favors.

Finally we can do what we obtained to do. Now we can get married. We all, gays and lesbians, asked for our respect and to not discriminate us. We’re thanking that it’s happened. So now we can hide no more to love each other.

We (men and women)
Mexico, 2010

I’m immensely grateful to Saint Anthony of Padua because finally my daughter Mercedes got married with a good man. I thought she would be an old maid forever. Now I can relax and don’t worry about her. And I offer the retablo for this.

Agripina Torres
Pachuca, Hidalgo

Manuel Rodríguez was very shy. So he prayed to San Antonio for giving him the courage to ask the woman that he loved to marry him. But it was her who propose him because she was a very determined woman. Manuel thanks San Antonio for blessing their marriage. And although he is a man of few words, his wife speaks for both of them.

We thank Saint Anthony because we have got married after many difficulties. Also our wedding was very beautiful and the saint blessed our marriage.