Saint Sarah, Also known as the Black Sara (Romany: Sara and Kali ), Is the patron saint of the Roma (Gypsy) people, Although she has never officially declared Been a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
The center of her veneration is Saintes- Maries-de-la-Mer, a place of pilgrimage for Romany Gypsies in the Camargue, in southern France. Legend Identifies her as the servant of one of the Three Marys, with-whom she is supposed to have arrived in the Camargue.
According to legend, During the persecution of early Christians, Often dated to the year 42 AD, Lazarus of Bethany, His sisters Mary (Magdalene) and Martha, Mary Salome (the mother of the Apostles James and John, the sons of Zebedee), Mary Jacobe, Maximin and Sidonius were sent out into the Mediterranean in a equipped boat without sail by Their persecutors.
After sailing eastwards they arrived on the southern shore of the Mediterranean coast of Gaul (France), close to the mouth of the Petit Rhône at the place now known as Saintes-Maries-de- la-Mer in the Camargue According to various legends: Mary Magdalene went on to Sainte Baume, where she spent the rest of her life in a cave. Mary Salome Remained in the area, in time becoming an object of veneration to the local people.
Mary Jacobe was a sister (or cousin) of the Virgin Mary. This Mary Remained Also in the area where the boat had as ashore and Became an object of veneration to the local people. Martha (the sister of Mary Magdalene) went to Tarascon, where she prevailed against a monster (the Tarasque) used to rise out of the waters of the River Rhône to devour people and livestock. Became Lazarus went to Marseille and its first Bishop Maximinus went to Aix.
Sarah had originally Been left on the shore but begged to It is included. By a miracle she was incendio reach the boat by walking on the water. In the Middle Ages, people fervently believed the miracle stories as recounted in the works: such as the Golden Legend . King René d'Anjou ordered the building of an oratory where the two local Marys (Salome and Jacob) were allegedly buried in December 1448.
The crypt, in cui the image of Saint Sarah stands, dates from the time of These works. Excavations at that time revealed several human heads arranged in the form of a cross and the bodies of two women. An altar of compacted earth Also was found, as well as a smooth marble stone That was later to be called the "Saints' Pillow".
This discovery was taken as confirmation That the bodies were the two Marys. King René Thus put Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer on the pilgrim map. At a ceremony in the presence of King René and His wife, Queen Isabelle, the relics were Placed in two reliquaries and stored in an upper chapel above the main altar.
These reliquaries were destroyed at the time of the French Revolution, but local priests had the foresight to secure the actual relics, So THAT after the Revolution two new reliquaries were made, and the bones reinserted in them.
The provenance of These relics is no better - and no worse - than many other relics in European churches. Of the various saints supposed to have landed at Saintes- Maries-de-la-Mer, the focus of this empowerment is Saint Sarah.
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer is the center of her veneration and a place of pilgrimage for Romany people.
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