Santa Muerte can be translated into English as either Saint Death or Holy Death, although religious studies scholar R. Andrew Chesnut believed that the former was a more accurate translation because it better reveals her identity as a folk saint. A variant of this is Santísima Muerte, which is translated as Most Holy Death or Most Saintly Death, and devotees often call her Santisma ...San La Muerte (Saint Death) is a skeletal folk saint that is venerated in Paraguay, Argentina (mainly in the province of Corrientes but also in Misiones, Chaco and Formosa) and southern Brazil (specifically in the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul).As the result of internal migration in Argentina since the 1960s the veneration of San La Muerte has been extended to Greater ...
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