Marseille
From afar, from the sea or the land, we only see him.
The comb bell tower of the Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer sanctuary stands out against the horizon.
It is there, on the borders of the Camargue, 80 kilometers west of Marseille, that, according to Provençal tradition, the first Christians would have landed, fleeing persecution in Palestine.
Among them, Marie-Madeleine, Lazare, Maximin, Marthe, Marie-Jacobé and Marie-Salomé.
The latter two gave their name to the white village in the Rhône delta.
The monumental fortified church of the 12th century, topped with the openwork bell tower, houses their relics as well as those of Sara, their servant, venerated by the gypsy community.
Martine Guillot has long been a cultural promoter of this place where the stones whisper the beginning of the history of Christianity in Provence.
“Here I developed the desire to connect the relics of the Holy Marys to those of Mary Magdalene, located in the basilica of Saint-Maximin, in the Var
,” explains the septuagenarian…
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