Saint Death: Noticing A Feast For Santa Muerte, Our Lady Of The Holy Death

Santa Muerte, the Alluring and Controversial Folk Saint of Death

Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte. Spanish for Our Lady of Holy Death), often shortened to Santa Muerte, is a new religious movement, female deity, folk-Catholic saint, and folk saint in Mexican folk Catholicism and Neopaganism. A personification of death, she is associated with healing, protection, and safe delivery to the afterlife by her devotees. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church and Evangelical pastors her cult has become increasingly prominent since the turn of the 21st century.