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Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte or colloquially Santa Muerte (Spanish for Our Lady of the Holy Death) is a female folk saint venerated primarily in Mexico and the United States. A personification of death she is associated with healing protection and safe delivery to the afterlife by her devotees. Not sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church her cult arose from popular Mexican folk belief a syncretism between indigenous Mesoamerican and Spanish Catholic beliefs and practices.
