In the heritage town of Argao's Good Friday procession, the controversial La Muerte image, a skeletal reminder of mortality, ...

Santa Muerte is often depicted as a skeletal figure, shroud in a cloak of varying colours, carrying a scythe and globe. As is customary in Catholic practice, patrons use "votive candles" of varying ...

But that didn’t work for “La Madrina Chayo,” a woman considered ... Clad in a black nun’s robe and holding a scythe in one hand, Santa Muerte appeals to people seeking all manner of ...

The eerie statue of a skeleton shrouded in a cape — a scythe in her right hand and ... two women and a boy were shot dead at an altar to La Santa Muerte. The saint was more recently adopted ...