Dr. Andrew Chesnut on Santa Muerte, the Death Goddess
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Is La Flaca More Popular Than the Virgin Mary?
In just 20 years of being public, santa morte has on so expenentially that she's one of the three great religious figures to day on the mexican religious landscape. She is now more popular than all mexican saints except saint jude, the patron saint of lost causes. And la flaca, as she's known, or nestra madrina, is more popular than than the virgin mary,. Don't you say? There's about 12 million devotees? Ye, ye. I mean, if you go to botanicas a, the shops that sell kind of esoteric religious articles in mexico, there's no doubt.
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