Mãe Stella de Oxóssi
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Country: Brazil
Location: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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Mãe Stella de Oxóssi (born Maria Stella de Azevedo Santos) (May 2, 1925 – December 27, 2018) was a iyalorixá, or priestess in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion. She was the first Black woman and first iyalorixá to be inducted into the Bahia Academy of Letters.