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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.
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.
Santa Muerte Mexico United States Central America: Shrine of Most Holy Death, Mexico City, Mexico love, prosperity, good health, fortune, healing, safe passage, protection against witchcraft, protection against assaults, protection against gun violence, protection against violent death, safe delivery to the afterlife
The supposed Santa Muerte human sacrifice case referenced by Almonte was the killing of 6-year-old Nathan Alexander Sanchez, who was stabbed to death by his father in the Los Angeles area in 2014.
Fascination with death has occurred throughout human history, characterized by obsessions with death and all things related to death and the afterlife. In past times, and present, people would form cults around death and figures. Famously, Anubis, Osiris, Hades, and La Santa Muerte have all had large cult followings.
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).
'Holy dirt' turned this Southwest town into a spiritual destination for 300,000 people a year ... Jaime Gonzales of Rio Rancho, N.M., carries a large cross along Santa Fe County Road 98 on his way ...
Church services are conducted every Sunday and attendees often invoke the name of the Santa Muerte to intercede before God, rather than other saints, and leave offerings to the folk saint. The church follow the Roman Catholic practice of baptism, holy communion, confirmations, weddings, exorcisms and the praying of rosaries. [5]