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Memorializing the Dead at Naples’ Feast of Madonna dell’Arco

On March 1, 2026, I stood in Naples, a city that, in the early spring...

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August 29, 2025

Maria La Sposa: The Italian Skeleton Bride As Folk Saint

In the heart of Torre Annunziata (Naples), amidst the shadows of the Vesuvian cemeteries, endures...

December 2023

December 08, 2023

The Two Skeleton Saints – A Journey Into the Fascinating World of Santa Muerte and San La Muerte

By guest contributor, anthropologist Luciano Martucci  The unprecedented ethnographic exposition in Bologna, which revealed the...

June 2023

June 06, 2023

Somebody’s Always Watching Me – Dr. Andrew Chesnut Interviews Antonio Pagliarulo on His New Book “The Evil Eye”

Dr. Andrew Chesnut:   Antonio – you just published this new book on one of...

November 2022

November 23, 2022

Love Will Tear Us Apart – Death Romanticized at Genoa’s Stegliano Cemetery

On June 12, 1804, the edict of Saint-Cloud promulgated by Napoleon Bonaparte radically changed cemetery...

October 2022

October 20, 2022

The Holy Trinity of Justice – Saint Justus, Christ the Just Judge and San la Muerte

Dr. Andrew Chesnut writes in his book Devoted to Death: "If the association between Santa...

June 2019

June 17, 2019

Loving Saint Paulinus: Patron Saint of Williamsburg, Brooklyn

By Guest Contributor Dr. Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada* Nola, a small town outside of Naples in the...

July 2018

July 08, 2018

St. Notburga – The Skeleton Saint of Social Justice

I did a double-take upon spying a sharply dressed female skeleton raising a shiny sickle...

May 2018

May 23, 2018

Catholic UFOs?

By Dr. Diana Walsh Pasulka, Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of...

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