Danny Shrode
Just Another Day at the Office...
A New Orleans street performer heads home from Jackson Square after a day of portraying Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte or, colloquially, Santa Muerte (Spanish for Holy Death).
Santa Muerte is a female folk saint venerated primarily in Mexico and the Southwestern United States. A personification of death, she is associated with healing, protection, and safe delivery to the afterlife by her devotees. Despite opposition by the Catholic Church, her cult arose from popular Mexican folk belief, a syncretism between indigenous Mesoamerican and Spanish Catholic beliefs and practices.
Just Another Day at the Office...
A New Orleans street performer heads home from Jackson Square after a day of portraying Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte or, colloquially, Santa Muerte (Spanish for Holy Death).
Santa Muerte is a female folk saint venerated primarily in Mexico and the Southwestern United States. A personification of death, she is associated with healing, protection, and safe delivery to the afterlife by her devotees. Despite opposition by the Catholic Church, her cult arose from popular Mexican folk belief, a syncretism between indigenous Mesoamerican and Spanish Catholic beliefs and practices.