Santeria

Santeria: The Spirit of African Faith in Cuba (daily-choices.com)

                                            Why Is It Called Santería?

The Virgin of Charity La Caridad del Cobre Patroness of Cuba

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Most practitioners of Santería prefer the name Regla de Ocha or the Lucumí religion.  Although it’s practiced today by people all over the world, Regla de Ocha is generally defined as an Afro-Cuban religion that originated in what is today Nigeria and Benin in West Africa.  The word Santería comes from Spanish and loosely translates as devotion to the saints, or santos.  Many practitioners of the Regla Lucumi refer to the Orichas, or the deities of the religion, as saints or “santos.”  This tendency to combine terminology and concepts from Catholicism and West African religions is sometimes called religious syncretism.

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