Little Miracles, Kept Promises (Characters)

Characters

Chayo

See Rosario De Leon

Arnulfo Contreras

Arnulfo Contreras appeals to the Virgin for help in getting his employer to pay him the wages he is owed for two weeks’ work. He worked a total of 146 1/2 hours and earned a mere $253.72. His family depends on him and he does not know how he is going to pay the rent.

Gustavo Corchado B.

Gustavo Corchado B. writes to the Blessed Virgin de los Remedios, asking for her intercession on behalf of his wife of forty-eight years, who is gravely ill following surgery.

Rosario de Leon

Rosario De Leon is a young woman who is determined to live her life the way she wants to live it, rather than the way her family expects her to. She writes to the Virgin describing her turbulent inner life. She wants to be an artist and likes to spend time alone studying, but her family wants her to marry and have children.

Leocadia Dimas

Leocadia Dimas writes to Don Pedrito Jaramillo, healer of Los Olmos, on behalf of her two-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter Enriqueta Antonia Sandoval, who suffers from kidney cancer.

César Escandón

César Escandón petitions a saint, Niño Fidencio, to help him get a job with good pay and benefits.

Teresa Galindo

Teresa Galindo writes to Santí Señora de San Juan de los Logos. She reports that on a previous visit, she and her mother, as well as two aunts and sisters, had all made requests. None of them had been granted except Teresa’s request for a man. But now she wants the saint to take the man away again.

Victor A. Lozano

Victor A. Lozano thanks Saint Sebastian for answering his prayers. All the troubles that assailed him and his family are gone.

Moises Ildefonso Mata

Moises Ildefonso Mata appeals to the “Seven African Powers that surround our Savior” to allow his Illinois lottery ticket to win, and to protect him from his enemies.

Gertrudis Parra

Gertrudis Parra writes to the “Mighty Poderosos, Blessed Powerful Ones,” asking them to intercede with the Almighty on her behalf. She wants the demons that are the cause of all her troubles to be removed.

Benjamin T.

Benjamin T. writes to the Miraculous Black Christ of Esquipulas, asking him to watch over his friend Minny Benavides, whom he loves. Because he loves another man, Benjamin is filled with shame. He writes in code to prevent his message from being understood by others.

Sidronio Tijerina

Sidronio Tijerina and his wife write to the Blessed Santo Nino de Atocha, thanking the saint for helping them when their son-in-law’s truck was stolen.

Adelfa Vásquez

Adelfa Vásquez petitions San Martin de Porres for clothes, furniture, shoes and dishes, which the family needs after a house fire.

Barbara Ybañez

Barbara Ybañez writes to San Antonio de Padua, asking him to help her find a suitable man, one who acts like an adult and can at least pronounce his name in Spanish.