Fun With Chatholics
Mexican worshipers flock to St. Death
Mexico City - At a makeshift shrine in the Mexico City barrio of Tepito, ever-larger crowds gather each month to pray to a 6-foot skeletal figure wielding a scythe in one bony, bejeweled hand and cradling the world in the other.
She is called La Santa Muerte, or St. Death.
Centuries old, her popularity rising, St. Death attracts a coarse crowd of hundreds the first night of each month - to the discomfort of church officials.
Did I mention I love the practicality of some Catholics? If you're going to worship something, pick something reliable. The sun, the moon, death...
Mexico City - At a makeshift shrine in the Mexico City barrio of Tepito, ever-larger crowds gather each month to pray to a 6-foot skeletal figure wielding a scythe in one bony, bejeweled hand and cradling the world in the other.
She is called La Santa Muerte, or St. Death.
Centuries old, her popularity rising, St. Death attracts a coarse crowd of hundreds the first night of each month - to the discomfort of church officials.
Did I mention I love the practicality of some Catholics? If you're going to worship something, pick something reliable. The sun, the moon, death...
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