The future patron saint of prisoners, drug addicts and journalists was born in Poland on Jan. 8, 1894, as Raymund Kolbe, the second son of Julius Kolbe and Maria Dąbrowska. At the age of 9 ...

Dressed in a flowing white robe and often wielding both a scythe and a globe, Santa Muerte — a cross between the Grim Reaper and the Virgin of Guadeloupe, Mexico’s patron saint — is just one ...

CULIACAN, Mexico (RNS) On Wednesday, men, women and children of all ages will march in a procession in honor of Jesus Malverde, a Robin Hood-like folk hero. CULIACAN, Mexico (RNS) Every year ...

Kevin Abar, of Homeland Security Investigations, said La Santa Muerte "has become a narco patron saint."Drug cartels feel La Santa Muerte protects them from law enforcement, military and from ...

Worshipers flock to shrines of him in Sinaloa. He’s not the only narco-saint. There’s also Santa Muerte, a female version of the Grim Reaper. Neither are recognized by the Catholic Church but ...

The faces of the Saints. Even a Saint for pierogies. "There are patron saints for everything, so I'm not surprised there is a patron saint of pierogi," says Father Nick Vaskov at Saint Stanislaus ...

Since then, he has become the non-approved patron saint of drug dealers, bandits, and outlaws. A Mexican rapper performs under his name, and he has spawned a trilogy of drug-drenched action ...

Author Randy Ribay pulls no punches in "Patron Saints of Nothing" (Kokila, 352 pp., ★★★½ out of four), which Epic Reads calls one of the most anticipated YA books of the summer.