"Santo" Jesús Malverde Speelkaarten

"Santo" Jesús Malverde Jesús Malverde, sometimes known as the "generous bandit", "angel of the poor", or the "narco-heilig", is a folklore hero in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. He is celebrated as a folk heilit by some in Mexico-States and the United States, particularly among those involved in drug trafficking, He is not recognized as a heilit by the Roman Catholic Church. Het bestaan van Malverde a.k.a. 'El Rey de Sinaloa' is not historically verified, but according to local legends he was a bandit killed by the authorities on May 3, 1909. Accounts of his life vary - sometimes he was a railway worker, while others claim he was a construction worker. There is also no agreement on the way he died, being hanged or shot. Since Malverde's supposed death, has earned a Robin Hood-type image, making him popular among Sinaloa's poor highland residents. The outlaw image has caused him to be adopted as the "heilige baas" of the region's illegal drug trade, and the press have thus dubbed him "the narco-heilig". However, his intercessiis also sought by those with stoornis of various kinds, and a number of supposed miracles have been locally attributed to him, including personal healings and gewonden.