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Summary

The cult image, female divine being, and folk saint Nuestra Seora de la Santa Muerte (Spanish meaning: Our Woman of the Holy Death) is a cult image, female divine being, and folk saint in Mexican Neopaganism and folk Catholicism. 
Her worshippers relate her with healing, security, and safe delivery to the afterlife simply because she's a personification of death. In spite of condemnation from Catholic Church leaders and, more just recently, evangelical movements, her following has grown substantially since the start of the twenty-first century. 
Santa Muerte, who was initially portrayed as a male character, is now generally illustrated as a skeletal female figure dressed in a long cape and clutching several things, most typically a scythe and a world. 
Let’s take a look at what she means or meant to people in Mexico, and what we can learn about it.

Duration: 43 minutes (00:43:16)
Publishing date: 2022-02-10; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

• Humanities & Social Sciences
• Religion