(in Mexico and Spanish-speaking areas of the south-western US) a religious symbol, especially a wooden representation of a saint.
（墨西哥和美国西南部讲西班牙语地区的）圣者像（尤指圣徒木雕像）
I asked Quiroz about his mother and the santos she used to sell - saints that could cure illness or a broken heart
Example sentencesExamples
Rather than wait for deliveries of artwork for churches and shrines, an enterprising lot of wood-carvers began carving and painting santos, or religious images, a tradition that continues in northern New Mexico.
Hispanic creators of santos - carved and painted depictions of the Catholic saints - displayed their work at San Felipe Cathedral in Old Town.
For both Fiesta Sunday and All Saints Day, we use santos (painted wood panels of saints) and bultos (carved wooden statues of saints) on the altar.
Many Dominicans believe that the Catholic saints possess a kind of magical power, and express this belief in santos cults.
Composed of hundreds of ephemeral objects, from sugar cookies to vials of cheap perfume to devotional candles, popular santos, kitschy trinkets and cans of Goya beans, ‘Infinito Botanica’ is a vast still life.
Origin
Spanish or Italian.
Definition of santo in US English:
santo
nounˈsän-
(in Mexico and Spanish-speaking areas of the southwestern US) a religious symbol, especially a wooden representation of a saint.
（墨西哥和美国西南部讲西班牙语地区的）圣者像（尤指圣徒木雕像）
I asked Quiroz about his mother and the santos she used to sell - saints that could cure illness or a broken heart
Example sentencesExamples
Composed of hundreds of ephemeral objects, from sugar cookies to vials of cheap perfume to devotional candles, popular santos, kitschy trinkets and cans of Goya beans, ‘Infinito Botanica’ is a vast still life.
Rather than wait for deliveries of artwork for churches and shrines, an enterprising lot of wood-carvers began carving and painting santos, or religious images, a tradition that continues in northern New Mexico.
Many Dominicans believe that the Catholic saints possess a kind of magical power, and express this belief in santos cults.
For both Fiesta Sunday and All Saints Day, we use santos (painted wood panels of saints) and bultos (carved wooden statues of saints) on the altar.
Hispanic creators of santos - carved and painted depictions of the Catholic saints - displayed their work at San Felipe Cathedral in Old Town.