DescriptionNuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte is a female deity and folk saint in Mexican folk Catholicism. A personification of death, she is associated with healing, protection, prosperity and safe delivery to the afterlife. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, her cult has become increasingly prominent since the turn of the 21st century. She is also known as “The Most Holy Death” you may also petition her to keep men faithful. She will judge men who violate the sanctity of marriage if called upon to do so.She is alleged to be a very powerful Saint reputed to grant many miracles. Her images are treated as holy and can grant miracles in return for the faith of the believer. Although most followers are everyday people who pray to her for jobs or good health, the cult has been often connected to drug traffickers and criminals. One of the reasons for her widespread appeal is that she accepts everyone and doesn’t discriminate. As Señora de la Noche (“Lady of the Night”), she is often invoked by those exposed to the dangers of working at night, such as taxi drivers, bar owners, police, soldiers, and sex workers. As such, devotees believe she can protect against assaults, accidents, gun violence, and all types of violent death.Many people start to work with her by offering her a glass of cool water, a white candle and praying her rosary. Santa Muerte altars generally contain one or multiple images of the saint, generally surrounded by any or all of the following: cigarettes, flowers, fruit, incense, water, alcoholic beverages, coins, candies and candles. Tobacco is also used for personal cleansing and for cleansing statues of her.These bracelets were handmade in Mexico & ritually consecrated by a Brujeria Practitioner that I meet up with when I am in ArizonaMade in Mexico
