I've met "Milagros"

Today I came strolling into Russell Hall attempting to arrive at my ECHD class a little early. However, the door was locked, and our teacher was nowhere to be found. Finally, the hoodlum shows up and unlocks the door for us. Upon our entrance, the cleaning lady was just finishing vacuuming around the seats. Then, out of nowhere, our professor proclaims the word, Malagros, obviously aimed at the cleaning lady. YES! It was her! After all this time hearing Rickie talk about her, I finally got to meet her face to face and even hear her say a few words in her beautiful accent. Malagros sure as hell exists, and she made my day. Now, I'm just waiting on Paul Webber...

Further Reading

The word milagros means "miracle" in Spanish. Typically, in Mexico, the use of milagros is connected with an institution known as the “manda”. This where a person will ask a favor a saint, and then, in order to repay the saint after the favor has been granted, one must make a pilgrimage to the shrine of that saint, and take a milagro and leave it there. These milagros are typically pinned to some object of devotion in the shrine, and often a small prayer of thanks is added, written of a piece of paper, typically.
People also might carry a milagro with them in order to get its benefit. For instance, a curandera - a spiritual healer - might bless a milagro and recommend that the person carry it in her pocketbook or on her person, in order to cure a physical ailment or to ward off evil, or bring about a change of fortune.
Milagros can represent specific objects, persons, or even animals, or they might represent concepts that might be symbolized by the object represented in the milagro. For instance, a head might represent a person, a person’s head, the mind, the spirit, a condition such a headache, or whatever concept that the owner or that a curandero or curandera might assign to it.