For those selling illegal narcotics and in need of spiritual protection, there is Jesús Malverde. Considered the patron saint of drug traffickers in Mexico, Malverde was said to be a construction or railroad worker who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and developed a reputation for robbing from the rich and giving to the poor. After his capture and hanging in 1909, his Robin Hood legend carried on. His last name, Malverde, means “green evil,” which helped make him popular among marijuana growers, and eventually narco-bandits.