Cuban Santería , Haitian Vodou , Brazilian Umbanda , Candomblé , and other similar syncretist religions adopted the Catholic saints , or at least the images of the saints , and applied their own spirits/deities to them .
Cuban Santería , Haitian Vodou , Brazilian Umbanda and Candomblé , and other similar syncretist religions adopted the Catholic saints , or at least the images of the saints , and applied their own spirits/deities to them .