How to Pray the Santa Muerte Rosary

Santa Muerte rosary - by Arnold Bustillo

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This version of the Santa Muerte rosary can be used to honor the Santa Muerte, to clear the mind and spirit before conducting spell work with the Santa Muerte, and as a form of thanks to the Santa Muerte for miracles or requests granted. The Santa Muerte rosary is a string of 59 beads, each bead representing a prayer or set of prayers. In addition to the beads, the Santa Muerte rosary will also typically display the image of the Santa Muerte with a hanging medallion or amulet.

​In Santa Muerte magick, a rosary is a set of prayers used as a form of devotion or offering to the Santa Muerte. Because of the number of prayers involved, devotees will often use a rosary necklace to keep track of their place throughout the recitation of the rosary.

​If using a necklace, simply start at the medallion and move up the necklace one bead at time, reciting the appropriate prayer or set of prayers that correspond to each point on the rosary. Go up one side of the necklace and down the other until all beads have been covered. The last point on the rosary necklace, the place that marks the recitation of the last prayer at the bottom of this page (the Santa Muerte rosary "Closing Prayer") is the three way connector - the point on the rosary where the three ends of the rosary connect. The three way connector may or may not be marked by a bead, but if it is, then it is skipped at the beginning of the rosary and only counted at the very end of the rosary.

To begin, hold the medallion or amulet depicting the image of the Santa Muerte in your hands and pray the following Santa Muerte Rosary "Opening Prayer":

​Santa Muerte, Holy Death, I offer these prayers for you.
​From the altar in my heart, to your ears,
​may you find the words sweet, and their meanings true.
​Santa Muerte, Holy Death, I offer these prayers for you.

On the first bead, pray one "Our Santa Muerte":

​Our Santa Muerte who will come for us all,
kind and gentle be your kiss.
When you come to end my life,
may I be free of any regrets.
Thank you for this day, one more beautiful day,
so I may have it to live, love, and laugh my own way,
amen.

On beads 2-4, pray one "Glory Be Holy Death", each:

Glory be Holy Death, blessed death, peaceful death. 
As you have been with me from the beginning,
so are you with me now, and so will you be with me always,
amen.

On bead 5, pray the First Mystery of Santa Muerte:

Holy Death holds in her hand
A magick scythe she commands
When at us her scythe does swing,
swift to us, our death she brings.

Our Santa Muerte who will come for us all,
kind and gentle be your kiss.
When you come to end my life,
may I be free of any regrets.
Thank you for this day, one more beautiful day,
so I may have it to live, love, and laugh my own way,
amen.

​Hail the Santisima, full of love and grace.
Blessed by you are the forsaken and forgotten.
Blessed by you are the abused and downtrodden.
Hail the Santisima, who holds power over all,
bless us with your love now and at the moment of our deaths,
amen.

Glory be Holy Death, blessed death, peaceful death. 
As you have been with me from the beginning,
so are you with me now, and so will you be with me always,
amen.

On bead 6 - 15, pray one "Hail the Santisima" each:

Hail the Santisima, full of love and grace.
Blessed by you are the forsaken and forgotten.
Blessed by you are the abused and downtrodden.
Hail the Santisima, who holds power over all,
bless us with your love now and at the moment of our deaths,
amen.

On bead 16, pray the Second Mystery:

On the back of Death is placed,
hooded cloak of magick great.
With this power Death protects,
Each of us from birth to death.

Our Santa Muerte who will come for us all,
kind and gentle be your kiss.
When you come to end my life,
may I be free of any regrets.
Thank you for this day, one more beautiful day,
so I may have it to live, love, and laugh my own way,
amen.

​Hail the Santisima, full of love and grace.
Blessed by you are the forsaken and forgotten.
Blessed by you are the abused and downtrodden.
Hail the Santisima, who holds power over all,
bless us with your love now and at the moment of our deaths,
amen.

Glory be Holy Death, blessed death, peaceful death. 
As you have been with me from the beginning,
so are you with me now, and so will you be with me always,
amen.
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On bead 17 - 26, pray one "Hail the Santisima" each:

Hail the Santisima, full of love and grace.
Blessed by you are the forsaken and forgotten.
Blessed by you are the abused and downtrodden.
Hail the Santisima, who holds power over all,
bless us with your love now and at the moment of our deaths,
amen​.

On bead 27, pray the Third Mystery:

Balanced in Death's hand of bone,
Scales of Justice, to all shown.
Special treatment, none receive,
From this Earth, we all must leave.

Our Santa Muerte who will come for us all,
kind and gentle be your kiss.
When you come to end my life,
may I be free of any regrets.
Thank you for this day, one more beautiful day,
so I may have it to live, love, and laugh my own way,
amen.

​Hail the Santisima, full of love and grace.
Blessed by you are the forsaken and forgotten.
Blessed by you are the abused and downtrodden.
Hail the Santisima, who holds power over all,
bless us with your love now and at the moment of our deaths,
amen.

Glory be Holy Death, blessed death, peaceful death. 
As you have been with me from the beginning,
so are you with me now, and so will you be with me always,
amen.

On bead 28 - 37, pray one "Hail the Santisima" each:

Hail the Santisima, full of love and grace.
Blessed by you are the forsaken and forgotten.
Blessed by you are the abused and downtrodden.
Hail the Santisima, who holds power over all,
bless us with your love now and at the moment of our deaths,
amen.

On bead 38, pray the Fourth Mystery:

Santa Muerte walks the Earth,
Those who love her, she will serve.
Fear not Death, be unafraid,
Death is with us, everyday.

Our Santa Muerte who will come for us all,
kind and gentle be your kiss.
When you come to end my life,
may I be free of any regrets.
Thank you for this day, one more beautiful day,
so I may have it to live, love, and laugh my own way,
amen.

​Hail the Santisima, full of love and grace.
Blessed by you are the forsaken and forgotten.
Blessed by you are the abused and downtrodden.
Hail the Santisima, who holds power over all,
bless us with your love now and at the moment of our deaths,
amen.

Glory be Holy Death, blessed death, peaceful death. 
As you have been with me from the beginning,
so are you with me now, and so will you be with me always,
amen.

On bead 39 - 48, pray one Hail the Santisima each:

Hail the Santisima, full of love and grace.
Blessed by you are the forsaken and forgotten.
Blessed by you are the abused and downtrodden.
Hail the Santisima, who holds power over all,
bless us with your love now and at the moment of our deaths,
amen.

On bead 49, pray the Fifth Mystery:

Land of living, land of dead,
At the bridge between stands Death.
When the flame of life is lost,
Santa Muerte helps us cross.

Our Santa Muerte who will come for us all,
kind and gentle be your kiss.
When you come to end my life,
may I be free of any regrets.
Thank you for this day, one more beautiful day,
so I may have it to live, love, and laugh my own way,
amen.

​Hail the Santisima, full of love and grace.
Blessed by you are the forsaken and forgotten.
Blessed by you are the abused and downtrodden.
Hail the Santisima, who holds power over all,
bless us with your love now and at the moment of our deaths,
amen.

Glory be Holy Death, blessed death, peaceful death. 
As you have been with me from the beginning,
so are you with me now, and so will you be with me always,
amen.

On bead 50 - 59, pray one "Hail the Santisima" each:

Hail the Santisima, full of love and grace.
Blessed by you are the forsaken and forgotten.
Blessed by you are the abused and downtrodden.
Hail the Santisima, who holds power over all,
bless us with your love now and at the moment of our deaths,
amen.

Hold the three way connector in your hands and pray the following Santa Muerte Rosary "Closing Prayer":

Hail to you Santa Muerte,
When to you I turn in desperation,
May you shine mercy upon me.

Hail to you Santa Muerte,
When to you I bring petition,
May you shine favor upon me.

Use your powers on my behalf,
and never forsake me,
Santisima Muerte,
amen

End.

- by Arnold Bustillo
Originally published October 2016.
​Updated April 2022.