San La Muerte
San La Muerte is a skeletal folk saint of Argentina and Paraguay. He is a male counterpart to Santa Muerte.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- Attested period
- 1940 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Folk saint whose veneration spread to Greater Buenos Aires and Argentine prisons since the 1960s due to internal migration.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Rey Pascual, Virgin of Guadalupe, GuadaMuerte, la Parca, Mictlantecuhtli, Ixtab, Mictecacihuatl, La Calavera Catrina, San Pascualito, Santa Muerte
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Although there are other death saints in Latin America, such as San La Muerte, Santa Muerte is the only female saint of death in the Americas.”
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“San La Muerte (Saint Death) is a skeletal folk saint venerated in Paraguay, northeast Argentina. As the result of internal migration in Argentina since the 1960s, the veneration of San La Muerte has been extended to Greater Buenos Aires.”
#14483 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“San La Muerte (Saint Death) is a skeletal folk saint venerated in Paraguay, northeast Argentina. As the result of internal migration in Argentina since the 1960s, the veneration of San La Muerte has been extended to Greater Buenos Aires and the national prison system.”
#14627 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5