29 Facts About Santa Muerte

Nuestra Senora de la Santa Muerte, often shortened to Santa Muerte, is a cult image, female deity, and folk saint in folk Catholicism and Mexican Neopaganism.

Cult of Santa Muerte began in Mexico some time in the mid-20th century and was clandestine until the 1990s.

Santa Muerte has similar male counterparts in the American continent, such as the skeletal folk saints San La Muerte of Paraguay and Rey Pascual of Guatemala.

Santa Muerte is known by a wide variety of other names: the Skinny Lady, the Bony Lady, the White Girl, the White Sister, the Pretty Girl, the Powerful Lady, the Godmother, Senora de las Sombras, Senora Blanca, Senora Negra, Nina Santa, Santa Sebastiana or Dona Bella Sebastiana and La Flaca .

Perdigon Castaneda, Thompson, Kingsbury, and Chesnut have countered the argument proposed by Malvido, Lomnitz, and Kristensen that Santa Muerte's origins are not Indigenous, suggesting that Santa Muerte derives from authentic Indigenous beliefs.

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In contrast to the Day of the Dead, overt veneration of Santa Muerte remained clandestine until the middle of the 20th century.

Veneration of Santa Muerte was documented in the 1940s in working-class neighborhoods in Mexico City such as Tepito.

At present Santa Muerte can be found throughout Mexico and in parts of the United States and Central America.

The cult of Santa Muerte first came to widespread popular attention in Mexico in August 1998, when police arrested notorious gangster Daniel Arizmendi Lopez and discovered a shrine to the saint in his home.

Circa 2005, the Santa Muerte cult was brought to the United States by Mexican and Central American immigrants, and by 2012 had tens of thousands of followers throughout the country, primarily in cities with high Hispanic and Latino populations.

Santa Muerte's is associated with healing, protection, financial wellbeing, and assurance of a path to the afterlife.

Santa Muerte is marked out as female not by her figure but by her attire and hair.

Some followers of Santa Muerte believe that she is jealous and that her image should not be placed next to those of other saints or deities, or there will be consequences.

Rites dedicated to Santa Muerte include processions and prayers with the aim of gaining a favor.

Some believers of Santa Muerte remain members of the Catholic Church, while millions are cutting ties with the Catholic Church and founding independent Santa Muerte churches and temples.

Santa Muerte has a saint's day, which varies from shrine to shrine.

Santa Muerte's maintains a shop in Mercado Juarez in Monterrey, where tarot readers, curanderos, herbal healers, and sorcerers can be found.

Santa Muerte is a multifaceted saint, with various symbolic meanings and her devotees can call upon her a wide range of reasons.

Santa Muerte is called upon for matters of the heart, health, money, wisdom, and justice.

The majority of anthropological writings on Santa Muerte discuss her significance as provider of love magic and miracles.

Cult of Santa Muerte was established in the United States c, brought to the country by Mexican and Central American migrants.

Opposition to the veneration of Santa Muerte took a violent turn in late January, 2013, when one or more vandals smashed a statue of the folk saint, which had appeared in the San Benito, Texas, municipal cemetery earlier that month.

Cult of Santa Muerte is present throughout the strata of Mexican society, although the majority of devotees are either underemployed workers or from the urban working class.

Santa Muerte tends to attract those in extremely difficult or hopeless situations but appeals to smaller sectors of middle class professionals and even the affluent.

Santa Muerte is revered and seen as a saint and protector of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities in Mexico, since LGBTQ+ people are considered and treated as outcasts by the Catholic Church, evangelical churches, and Mexican society at large.

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The Iglesia Catolica Tradicional Mexico-Estados Unidos, known as the Church of Santa Muerte, recognizes gay marriage and performs religious wedding ceremonies for homosexual couples.

Santa Muerte's is a popular deity in prisons, both among inmates and staff, and shrines dedicated to her can be found in many cells.

Altars with images of Santa Muerte have been found in many drug houses in both Mexico and the United States.

Santa Muerte continues to lead his sect from his prison, but it is unfeasible for Romo or anyone else to gain dominance over the Santa Muerte cult.