Mãe Judith

Biography

Mãe Judith (died 1940) was a West African enslaved woman who was taken to Brazil. In Brazil, she became a Mãe-de-santo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmɐ̃j d(ʒi) ˈsɐ̃tu], priestess) in the disaporic Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé (Portuguese pronunciation: [kɐ̃dõˈblɛ]). She was the founder and first mother saint of the Terreiro Aganjú Didê [pt] place of worship in São Gonçalo dos Campos.

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