Every year on May 24 in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (Holy Marys of the Sea), a French town 2.500 inhabitants in the Rhone Delta, thousands of Roman Catholic gypsies arrive from every corner of Europe to venerate their patron Saint Sarah, also known as Black Sarah because of the colour of her skin.
Black Sarah has not been officially declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
Black Sarah has not been officially declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. But it seems logical that the patron saint of a people living on the margins should herself be marginalized.
According to tradition, Black Sarah was a concubine of Mary, mother of James, and Mary of Salome, who were aunts of Jesus Christ. After the crucifixion, the Romans put the three women in a boat without oars and threw them into the sea, which washed them away in Camargue, a pastoral region of southern France.
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