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Devotees praying to Santa Muerte in Mexico. Santa Muerte can be translated into English as either "Saint Death" or "Holy Death", although R. Andrew Chesnut, Ph.D. in Latin American history and professor of Religious studies, believes that the former is a more accurate translation because it "better reveals" her identity as a folk saint.
Catholic church leaders have rebuked worship of Santa Muerte (meaning "Saint Death or "Holy Death") as "spiritually dangerous" superstition, paganism and demonic heresy.
Sporting gloves and a red ribbon to ward off evil, Ecuadoran police raiding a drug den apprehensively inspect an altar to Santa Muerte — a Mexican "death saint" adopted by local gangs as their ...
Brazilian Catholic noun Known for defending marginalized people; Canonized on 13 October 2019 by the Catholic Church. First Brazilian female saint. Popular saints identified with folkloric beings: Santa Muerte Mexico United States Central America: Shrine of Most Holy Death, Mexico City, Mexico
San La Muerte (Saint Death) is a skeletal folk saint that is venerated in Paraguay, Argentina (mainly in the province of Corrientes but also in Misiones, Chaco and Formosa) and southern Brazil (specifically in the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul).
Our Lady of the Holy Death (Santa Muerte) is a female deity or folk saint of Mexican folk religion, whose popularity has been growing in Mexico and the United States in recent years. Since the pre-Columbian era , Mexican culture has maintained a certain reverence towards death, as seen in the widespread commemoration of the Day of the Dead.
A religious bust of Jesús Malverde, a popular narco-saint, with a marijuana leaf-shaped necklace.. Narco-saints (Spanish: Narcosantos) are Catholic Saints and folk saints that are venerated (or sometimes worshipped) by criminals such as money launderers, smugglers, and drug traffickers, particularly in the United States and Latin America.
Before his death in 2015, he told a journalist with the Santa Fe Reporter: “It’s the faith that heals, not the dirt!” Last week, as Good Friday approached, the Santuario sprang to life.