Santuario Nacional de la Santa Muerte
Santuario Nacional de la Santa Muerte
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Lonely Planet review for Santuario Nacional de la Santa Muerte
At the saint’s official home 1km south of the shrine, however, she is nowhere to be seen. Instead, the Santuario Nacional de la Santa Muerte has a new figure of worship: a tall, winged woman with a ghostly pale complexion (though like her predecessor, she bears a scythe). In August 2007, the church substituted this ethereal Angel of St Death, because, as its bishop explained, Santa Muerte had become associated with drug runners, Satanists and other bad elements – an image, he claimed, that runs counter to her nature.
