This is also a season when people invoke la Santa Muerte - or the Death Saint. ANDREW CHESNUT: She is the saint who never discriminates, because death accepts everybody. We all end up in her bony ...

MIAMI – The “Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte” worshippers are putting themselves at risk, the International Association of Exorcists warned.. The association based in Italy published a ...

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 ...

A statue of "Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte," or Our Lady of Holy Death, in Mexico City. Fernando Llano / AP. Nov. 3, 2024, 9:50 AM EST. By Associated Press.

Believers of the Santa Muerte, affectionally called "La Niña Blanca" and "The White Lady," typically place altar offerings of fruit, such as red apples, food, cigarettes and alcohol, not blood ...

Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte, often shortened to Santa Muerte and Spanish for Our Lady of Holy Death, is an idol in Mexican and Mexican-American folklore.

She is La Santa Muerte, a female folk saint popular among Mexican Catholics. Behind the counter, the cashier, who asked not to be named, said Santa Muerte statues and related items, ...

According to the DEA, Santa Muerte is a recurring icon among the Sinaloa Cartel, Juarez Cartel and the Gulf Cartel.Of these transnational crime groups, only the first of them remains in force in ...

FILE - 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. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File) ...