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Mexican Religious Artwork
and Collectors Items
from Fausto's Art Gallery
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San Benito: "The Black Saint"
San Benito de Palma is a popular saint in Cuba because he represents, to many, the Santeria god, or "orisha", known as Eleggua.
In Mexico, he can truly be called a "black saint" - and not so much because the subject, San Benito de Palermo, was an African - but moreso because of the reason his help is sought by the faithful. San Benito, at least at his shrine in Mexico City, is the patron saint of asassins, who pray to him that they attempts will succeed, and that they won't be caught by the police or by the family or friends of their victims!
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San Cipriano - Patron Saint of Magicians
San Cipriano is known for three things. One is that he is the patron saint of magicians. Another is his alleged authorship of the most famous "grimoire" (the Franch corruption of the Spanish word "grimorio"), or book of magic (NOT "magick"), of all time, the "Libro de San Cipriano", or "ciprianillo" as it is often known is Spain. The third is his fame as being able to provide "amparo" to magicians - protection against powerful demons and spells, and malevalent spirits, especially when they are engaged in curing people of sicknesses caused by spells.
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San Cipriano - Patron Saint of Magicians
San Cipriano was originally a powerful magician, and he later became a Christian bishop and gave up the craft, and he supposedly burned his books of magic, some of which he had penned himself, having compiled spells and esoteric knowledge from diverse sources and having written it down in Greek so that others might also learn these things. Supposedly, a German monk named Jonas Sulferino was taught the contents of the books during a nocturnal visit by an infernal being in the year 1000, although it is more likely that the Latin Version of the texts which are attributed to his hand were translated from Arabic into either Latin or Spanish about that time, and smuggled out of Spain into Christian Europe.
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Mexican Nicho with Skeleton Figure Carved from Real Bone
This nicho is done in the same style as are Mexican nichos that normally contain Catholic Saints - but this one contains a skeleton instead. This skeleton is actually carved painstakingly by hand out of real bone - it is not made of plastic or any other other artificial material. You might say that this piece of artwork is connected with the Day of the Dead, or perhaps with the cult of the Santisima Muerte.
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Santisima Muerte Nicho
The folk saint “La Santisima Muerte” is usually depicted these days with all of the blandishments of the Grim Reaper, and the figurines that most curanderas and brujas use for their spells looks exactly like the Grim Reaper. There are three figures that are used in this cult - a white one, a black one, and a red one. The white was is for cures and for luck. The black one is for protection and vengeance, and the most commonly used one is red - for love spells.
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