Editing Hispanic (section)

==== Christianity ====
[[File:Escultura de la Virgen del Pilar, en la Basílica del Pilar de Zaragoza, España, Spain.jpg|thumb|The image of [[Our Lady of the Pillar]] wearing her canonical crown]]
Among the Spanish-speaking Catholics, most communities celebrate their homeland's [[patron saint]], dedicating a day for this purpose with festivals and religious services. Some Spanish-speakers in Latin America syncretize Roman Catholicism and African or Native American rituals and beliefs. Such is the case of [[Santería]], popular with [[Afro-Cubans]], which combines old African beliefs in the form of Roman Catholic saints and rituals. Other syncretistic beliefs include [[Kardecist spiritism|Spiritism]] and [[Curandero|Curanderismo]].<ref name="mrt.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.mrt.com/news/article/Univision-Curanderos-carry-on-traditions-of-7572561.php|title=Univision: Curanderos carry on traditions of Catholicism, African rites|website=mrt.com|date=15 February 2005}}</ref> In Catholic tradition, ''[[Our Lady of the Pillar]]'' is considered the Patroness of the [[Hispanic people]] and the [[Hispanidad|Hispanic world]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Fodor's Spain|first=William |last=Curtis|year=2004| isbn=9781400012701| page =232|publisher=University of Michigan Press|quote=the Virgen del Pilar, the patron saint not only of peninsular Spain but of the entire Hispanic world.}}</ref>