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In Cebu, a Good Friday Encounter with Devotees of the ‘Saint of Death’

The parish priest in the town of Argao banned the relic of a crowned ivory skeleton called 'La Santa Muerte' from the church compound, but a small group of devotees believe she has mystic powers and that she hears and answers their prayers. “When we die, she will greet us as we move to eternal life,” one of them said.

Argao, Cebu-There were three of them but they said they numbered more. They sat on the sofa beside a crowned skeleton made of ivory called La Muerte. The Death. But to them, the relic is La Santa Muerte, a saint to ...

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