Folk Catholicism
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Folk Catholicism can be broadly described as various ethnic expressions and practices of Catholicism intermingled with aspects of folk religion. Practices have varied from place to place and may at ti
Vodou altar celebrating Papa Guédé in Boston, Massachusetts, featuring offerings to Rada spirits, the Petwo family, and the Gede. In the center is a golden monstrance.
Participants at one of the Simbang Gabi masses
Neapolitan crib figures
Candelore for the feast of Sant'Agata in Catania
Santa Muerte
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Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte, often shortened to Santa Muerte, is a new religious movement, female deity, folk-Catholic saint, and folk saint in Mexican folk Catholicism and neo-paganism. A perso
Folk Catholicism
…that there is a blatant heresy occurring, it actively rejects it and tells Catholics to stay away from such practices. This is the case of the cult of Santa Muerte (Saint Death, a personification and veneration of death). The Church has condemned the cult as blasphemous, calling it a "degeneration of religion…
Illustration of Santa Muerte
Devotees praying to Santa Muerte in Mexico
Mictēcacihuātl (or Mictlancihuatl), the skeletal Aztec goddess of death
One of José Guadalupe Posada's Catrina engravings (1910–1913)