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Traditions - Religious events - Pèlerinage - Procession

Saintes Maries de la Mer

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Pèlerinage de la Vierge Noire

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24 May 2013
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Office de Tourisme des Saintes Maries de la Mer
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Pèlerinage de la Vierge Noire
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May 24th, 2012

During this mythical pilgrimage, the statue of Sarah - the patron saint of the gypsies - is borne to the sea in commemoration of the evangelization of Camargue by Saint Mary Salome and Mary Jacobe in 40 AD.
Today's celebration of Sarah is a fairly recent innovation. In 1935, the Marquis de Baroncelli and a group of Camargue herdsmen, keen to incorprate the gypsy population in the Pilgrimage, introduced the procession to the sea in honour of "their Saint".

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