Mãe Stella de Oxóssi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Candomblé mãe-de-santo, a spiritual leader
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Place of Birth: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
About Mãe Stella de Oxóssi
- Mãe Stella de Oxóssi (born Maria Stella de Azevedo Santos, also known as Odé Kayodê, 2 May 1925 – 27 December 2018) was a iyalorixá, or priestess in the Brazilian Candomblé religion.
- She was the fifth iyalorixá (chief priestess) of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá, a Candomblé terreiro in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
- Mãe Stella was trained as a public health nurse.
- She was initiated into the Candomblé religion in 1939 and became the iyalorixá of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá in 1976.
- Mãe Stella is noted for writing on the beliefs and practices of Candomblé for the general public, rather than practitioners.
- She lived in the interior of Bahia after a stroke and was interred in Salvador after her death in 2018.
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