For over 40 years, the Romero family has been worshipping the Most Holy and they state that she does not care about the social or work background of her worshippers. People of different social conditions, as well as children, old people and women of the streets go to Alfareria Street, number 12.

Her worshippers change the clothes of the Holy Death every first Monday of the month; the colour is in accordance with the season and with the demands of her devotees. Red symbolizes love and passion; green, hope; white and blue, peace and pureness -the colours of the virgin Mary- because she usually wears these colours.

The feast of the Holy Death is on November 2, the Day of the Dead and the night before, on October 31, the devotees pray a rosary to dress her in white as a bride. Nocturnal rosaries take place on this day and on Mondays of every month to bless the images carried by her devotees. The people who visit her altar feel the same devotion as they do before Christ, the saints and the virgins; they cross themselves, they pray, they ask and they make offerings. The number of followers grows day by day; when the rosaries are prayed, the streets close to Alfareria Street are closed.

Sellers of all types gather around the ceremony: soft drinks, flowers, candles, figures of the Most Holy, clothes, leaflets with engravings and specific prayers for the rosary, and cigars, which apparently are what the Nina Blanca prefers.

Leonor Paredes, the aunt of Mrs. Romero, instilled this cult and began to practice it in 1962; however, evidence suggests that the devotion to the Holy Death probably dates from the 19^>th century, when shamans in Catemaco also paid homage to her for a long time.

Amongst the most frequent prayer requests made to the Holy Death is that of keeping the fidelity of the couple. There is a legend saying that the Holy Death was a woman who lived in Pre-Hispanic times and was deceived by her husband. The pain she felt when she saw her husband in the arms of another woman was such that she committed suicide. When God saw her suffering, he made her the patron saint of marriages. This is why she is now the protector of marital union, and she can do a lot of harm to an unfaithful husband, if his wife asks for it. For these same reasons, people ask the Holy Death for help so that one person feels attraction to another and they get married.

As the Señora de la Noche (Lady of the Night), she has a special preference for people who work once the Sun has set because of the dangers they are exposed. She helps taxi drivers, mariachis, bartenders, police officers, soldiers, waitresses, prostitutes, etc. She is the patroness and the defender against assaults, road killings, wounds by firearms, and against all types of violent death. It has been reported that she has prevented the death of devotees involved in road accidents.

You may also ask her for things that you would not dare to ask other saints, for example: the death of your enemy, rival or unfaithful partner; damage to the properties of those who feel envious or resentment, or make that all evil they have sent towards us turns against them. She is considered a righteous entity, since she does not grant whims, but gives everybody what they deserve. Therefore, her devotees are asked to live a righteous life and fulfil the promises they make to the Most Holy.

To answer this question you are going to understand me very easily. Almost all of us come from religions that threaten or suggest that things will go wrong if we act or think badly.