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The health office confirmed the death by an official statement in which he deplored the death.
"It is with great regret that we report that the patient Maria Stella de Azevedo Santos, aged 93, has septicemia [infecção generalizada] of urinary focus, as well as chronic renal failure badociated with high blood pressure systemic, died today at age 16 hours [no horário da Bahia] ".
Note of the death of the mother Bahian Stella of Oxóssi – Photo: Reproduction
The declaration was signed by the doctors José Geraldo de Souza Castelluci and Gilmar Dias
The companion of Mother Stella, daughter of the saint, Graziela Dhomini, psychologist and writer, also pronounced, in a message sent by cell, after confirmation of death.
"I know that Mother Stella will always look for everyone, she is already gone, always lucid and bridalhona, she said that she would find me in the oruns (9 dimensions) and in the Sun, that is to say. in the light Graziela
Mother Stella lived in the city of Nazareth since 2017. She left Salvador to live there as a result of a misunderstanding between the sons of St. Lawrence the land Ilé Axé Opô Afonjá, in the capital, and his companion, Graziela
Considered as one of the greatest women of the country, Mother Stella was born May 2, 1925 in Salvador, fourth daughter of Esmeraldo Antigno dos Santos and Thomázia de Azevedo Santos
at the age of 13, she was taken away by her aunt. , who created it, for the land of the mother Aninha, founder of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá. A year later, she was introduced to candomblé. In her youth, she still loved reading. He graduated as a nurse, a profession she had been practicing for 30 years. 1976, at the age of 51, is chosen by the orixás as the new leader of the São Gonçalo do Retiro terreiro. the fifth ialorixá to order Ilê Axé Opó Afonjá.
In 1999, Mother Stella had the terreiro registered by the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute (Iphan).
In 2005, he received an honorary doctorate from the Federal University of Bahia (Ufba). Four years later, he received the same degree from the State University of Bahia. In addition, Mother Stella received the Order of the Knight, the State Government and the Order of Merit, Ministry of Culture, with the commendation Maria Quitéria, of the Salvador City Hall.
Consider Mother Stella was born on May 2, 1925. – Photo: Danutta Rodrigues
Scholar and spokesperson of the African religious belief, Mother Stella was the first ialorixá in Brazil to write books and articles on candomblé In 2013, she was unanimously elected to the Bahia Academy of Letters, where she was appointed president 33, under the patron of the poet Castro Alves.
ialorixá has published nine books, including "My Time Is Now", "óssoi – The Hunter of Joys", "Sword Laiyé – Living Earth" and "Ófun".
The religious, cultural and social leader of his people has always condemned religious syncretism. For the mother of St. Stella of Oxóssi, candomblé is candomblé and Catholicism, Catholicism. He did not agree with the merger between saints and orishas.
Always concerned about preserving black culture, Mother Stella participated in conferences and gave lectures. In Ilê Ax Opô Afonjá, he installed the first open-air museum in a candomblé house, where you can see the clothes and objects used by the mothers of the house and the orixás.
The book "Mother Stella of Oxóssi – Estrela our, the simplest!", Work of the writer Marcos Santana, tells the life of Ialorixá with poetry, testimonies, reviews and badyzes of some of its intellectual productions. The works were launched in 2014, in Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá terreiro.
The book is a collection that brings together the historical and cultural rescue, with texts of several authors such as : Edivaldo Boaventura, Muniz Sodro, Antonio Olinto, Jorge Amado, Fernando Coelho, Fr. Arnaldo Lima, Dorival Caymmi, Jorge Portugal, Menininha dos Gantois, Detinha Xango, Marcos Santana and his mother Stella
In 2014, it was also honored by Flica, a literary festival organized every year in the city of Cachoeira, in the Recôncavo Baiano. At the same time, she created the traveling library by adapting a bus to any place books that deal with curiosities about all religions. He preached mutual respect and coexistence. between all beliefs so that people will approach by faith.
More than a priestess of one of the country's largest candomblé terreiros, Mother Stella de Oxóssi was an activist of the cultural rescue of a city.
In 2017, Stella Mother idealized and launched an app with tips and messages of faith and motivation and also decided to create a YouTube channel with teachings and references about Yoruba culture, memoirs, testimonials and texts about her life.
The app provides audio with motivational messages emanating from Stella's Mother, personal videos on the intimacy of ialorixá, a gallery of photos and books written by the mother of santo in e-book format.
The YouTube channel, entitled "Da Cabeça de Mãe Stella", is linked to one of the flags that the ialorixa raised, namely to make ideals of candomblé, a brazilian African matrix religion that resists the country.
The idea of creating the channel on YouTube came from Mother Stella herself, who, diligent spectator of the philosophical discourses published on the platform, had the idea to register on her site her own teachings on the Yoruba culture.
The videos published on the channel contain articles on Mother Stella related by actors, artists' and anonymous testimonies about meetings with ialorixá, such as the singers Gerônimo and Margareth Menezes. There are also curiosities about what Mother Stella liked to see happen in life and myths of Yoruba culture reported by candomblé initiates.
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