Miracles have been witnessed, in many different forms throughout the world and are one of the mainstays of the Catholic beliefs.
Latin American Christians pray, worship, and attend church, with the hopes of receiving a blessing or a miracle from God.
"[3] In some parts of Latin America people will make pilgrimages to visit the statues of their patron saints and "Leave milagros as tangible symbolic petition or expressions of thanks.
"[3] Milagros were originally produced for the rich, but are now made out of tin and other base metals for everyone and usually takes the form of "A leg, head, eye, or arms and hearts, feet or hands (Langham, 326)."
These icons are believed to hold significant meaning among Catholics because they represent miraculous events.