Santa Muerte: Devoted to Death, the Skeleton Saint

Santa Muerte (Spanish for Holy Death or Saint/Sacred Death), is a female folk saint venerated primarily in Mexico, the Southwestern United States and worldwide . A personification of death, she is associated with healing, protection, and safe delivery to the afterlife (a proper natural death) by her devotees. Despite opposition by the Catholic Church, her cult arose from popular Mexican folk belief, a syncretism between indigenous Mesoamerican and Spanish Catholic beliefs and practices.

The voice we have today who crosses continents lecturing on Santa Muerte is Professor R. Andrew Chesnut, Ph.D., who holds the Bishop Walter F. Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies and is Professor of Religious Studies at VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University). He is the leading academic authority on Mexican folk saint, Santa Muerte, the fasting growing new religious movement in the Americas.

A specialist in Latin American religion, he is the author of Competitive Spirits: Latina America’s New Religious Economy (Oxford University Press, 2003), Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint (Oxford University Press, December 2012), and of Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty” (Rutgers University Press, 1997). He also blogs for the Huffington Post

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[asheragoddess]

I have seen him in a few documentary projects on Santa Muerte, I work with her too I'm in Texas so she is popular here. She is so great to work with for prosperity as well .

[asheragoddess]

I'm going to order his book I like how he put a lot of effort in the research

[TheIamblessed]

Santisima Muerte is with me and she is very real. For me she definitely wants her own things and her own space. I have had things happen immediately because altars were too close or I tried sharing things. Glasses on the other altars break or fall. Once, I put down a candle that was to be to hers by other candle holders from other altars. As soon as the candle hit the other entity's candle holder (so I could pick up some oil to dress the candle) the lighter I had sitting there actually popped and started spraying fluid all over me. It broke in the middle not on the ends where the seams are and it was brand new. I felt it, that as soon as I put it down she got angry and then bam! It was like something stabbed the lighter in the middle of it's side. Not a natural lighter failure at all. So you can do what you wish with your altar space, but in my house Santisima gets her own. Her own tools, Her own space. Her own oils. And she treats me very well.

[deonwhite]

Thank you 🙏 for sharing and I’am very grateful that I have found your You Tube channel

[sherylsavage]

I really hope there are many more videos like this in English, I found this very informative.  I am most definitely going to order Professor Chesnut's book as I really enjoyed how he relayed the information about La Santisima Muerte.  Well done Mona!

[Itz.Rio.Rblx_]

Blessings from LA 😘🙏 Santa Muerte protect us from evil

[nathaliecorchado]

I loved this interview ❤ one of the best i have seen. Watching while sipping coffee next to my santa muerte alter 💀🌹

[sarahbrook]

Thanks for posting this Mona! Great job, cleared up a many of my questions :)

[noobsaibot]

Good video lots of information you put out ty for sharing your experience and research on santisima muerte

[atlguera]

Thanks Professor Chestnut, I can't wait to look for a copy of your book ASAP

[desertSHAMAN]

Wish you were still putting content out 🖤

[wanda]

I'm definitely going to order this book asap.

[MysticalWitch]

What happened to your video`s Mona? I have not seen you do a new one in almost 12 months.

[JoViiisss]

She is great I’ve been talking to her. She’s my confidant ❤️👏🏼🙋🏼‍♀️

[Jame]

I have to get hold of this book it seems a really balanced look into santa muerte and her cult

[sentinelmoonfang]

Not going to lie. Ghost Recon brought me here... But why only left-channel audio?

[stanleyberg]

cool hes from Brighton?? I spent lots of years of my life in that city. I feel so alone here in UK being a devotee yet he lives in my area . wow fate moves in odd ways

[jackiekelly]

I use her often. She is good at cutting the wheat from the chaff!

[louismartinezjr]

good for a history lesson but he knows nothing of her real devotion.

[littlehorus]

I said the same thing on 13:00 death is everything