I guess Marxism isn’t a godless ideology after all.

(Reuters) – Fresh flowers were placed and new candles burning on Sunday at the “Saint Hugo Chavez” shrine in Caracas where devotees of the late socialist leader prayed for his last wishes to be fulfilled in the presidential vote.

Before succumbing to cancer last month, Chavez urged his millions of followers to vote for then-Vice President Nicolas Maduro as the flag bearer of socialism should he die.

For many, that became an almost sacred command.

“I came here to ask for my commander’s blessing, so that the one he chose, Maduro, can take forward his legacy,” said housewife Carmen Figueroa, 57, pressing her hand on a poster of Chavez in the makeshift altar on the side of a busy road.