Gonzalez, who sports a tattoo of La Santa Muerte on her back, holds an annual event in August in the saint’s honor, with mariachis and a feast. “All I have to do I ask for her guidance and she ...

Santa Muerte Drug Idol Updated: 8:05 AM MDT Apr 15, 2013 Editorial Standards ⓘ ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — At first glance, La Santa Muerte appears like the Grim Reaper.

Santa Muerte: An article in Monday’s Section A about followers of the sect of Santa Muerte misspelled the last name of Rick Nahmias, a photographer who has documented the movement, as Nahmais.

Santuario de la Santa Muerte in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, is one of the largest places devoted to Santa Muerte in Mexico. (Photo: Alejandro Linares Garcia,CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons ...

Like Mexico’s Day of the Dead holiday, the Santa Muerte is honored on Nov. 1 and 2. Roman Catholic leaders in Mexico have condemned the deity’s connection to violence and the illicit drug trade.

“Honestly, I’ve been very bad. I did things I shouldn’t have, but God gave me a second chance and thanks to God, I discovered Santa Muerte.” The origins of La Santa Muerte are unclear.

See About archive blog posts. More than 35 statues dedicated to Santa Muerte, or Saint Death, have been removed from around the border city of Nuevo Laredo by officials, reports the Associated Press.

A statue of "Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte," or Our Lady of Holy Death, is displayed for sale in Mexico City's Tepito neighborhood, Nov. 1, 2022. Fernando Llano / AP ...

Statues of La Santa Muerte are displayed at the Masks y Mas art store in Albuquerque, N.M. Catholic bishops in the United States are denouncing the skeleton folk saint as spiritually dangerous and ...