Once upon a time, it was said that after Christ’s death, Mary Magdalene sailed the great Mediterranean seas accompanied by two other Marys in a rudderless boat with no sails.
Miraculously they came ashore at the charming little town now known as les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, literally 'the Saint Marys of the Sea', on the south coast of France near where the Rhône River joins the Mediterranean.
In those days it was part of the prosperous Roman colony of Gaul and definitely part of civilization.
But, in tying the rudder in place, Mary Magdalene was seeking to follow the voyages of Odysseus, to see where the wind and the gods might take them and they had ended up here.
Of course, one might conclude that there are too many Marys in this story because they are so easily mixed up.
There is Mary Magdalene herself, then Mary of Bethany, who had a sister named Martha and a brother named Lazarus, whom Christ had risen from the dead.
All of them may have been in the boat.
Then we have the Virgin Mary, Jesus’ saintly mother, who wasn’t in the boat, but who is said to have had two half sisters known as Mary Jacobi and Mary Salome, and they were in the boat.
Some say that Saint Joseph of Arimathea and the Holy Grail were also on that boat but that is another story.
On the south coast of France they believe there were three Marys in that boat: Mary Magdalene, Mary Jacobi and Mary Salome.
They also believe that Mary’s boat voyaged first along the north African coast, where they picked up a black servant girl named Sara, generally known as Sara the Egyptian or Sara-la-Kali (Sara the black), before they washed ashore in Gaul.
The church at les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer is still a popular pilgrimage site in the Camargue, where they celebrate the arrival of the Three Marys every May and October and the relics of Saintes Mary Jacobi and Mary Salome are said to be there to this day.
The Gypsies have their own festival there in May, since Sara became their patroness and her relics are there too.
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Mary Magdalene: Was She or Wasn’t She?
Miraculously they came ashore at the charming little town now known as les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, literally 'the Saint Marys of the Sea', on the south coast of France near where the Rhône River joins the Mediterranean.
In those days it was part of the prosperous Roman colony of Gaul and definitely part of civilization.
But, in tying the rudder in place, Mary Magdalene was seeking to follow the voyages of Odysseus, to see where the wind and the gods might take them and they had ended up here.
Of course, one might conclude that there are too many Marys in this story because they are so easily mixed up.
There is Mary Magdalene herself, then Mary of Bethany, who had a sister named Martha and a brother named Lazarus, whom Christ had risen from the dead.
All of them may have been in the boat.
Then we have the Virgin Mary, Jesus’ saintly mother, who wasn’t in the boat, but who is said to have had two half sisters known as Mary Jacobi and Mary Salome, and they were in the boat.
Some say that Saint Joseph of Arimathea and the Holy Grail were also on that boat but that is another story.
On the south coast of France they believe there were three Marys in that boat: Mary Magdalene, Mary Jacobi and Mary Salome.
They also believe that Mary’s boat voyaged first along the north African coast, where they picked up a black servant girl named Sara, generally known as Sara the Egyptian or Sara-la-Kali (Sara the black), before they washed ashore in Gaul.
The church at les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer is still a popular pilgrimage site in the Camargue, where they celebrate the arrival of the Three Marys every May and October and the relics of Saintes Mary Jacobi and Mary Salome are said to be there to this day.
The Gypsies have their own festival there in May, since Sara became their patroness and her relics are there too.
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Mary Magdalene: Was She or Wasn’t She?
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A Pheadair, a Aspail, a bhfaca tú mo Ghrá geal?
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Do chonaic mé ar ball é i lár a namhad
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Gabhaigí ‘leith, a dhá Mhuire, go gcaoine sibh mo Ghrá liom
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Céard tá le caoineadh ‘gainn muna gcaoinimid a chnámha
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Cé hé an fear breá sin ar Chrann na Páise?
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An é nach n-aithnír do Mhac, a Mháthair?
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An é sin an Maicín a d’iompair mé trí ráithe?
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Nó ‘n é sin an Maicín a rugadh sa stábla?
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Nó an é sin an Maicín a hoileadh in ucht
Mháire?
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Éist a Mháthair is ná bí cráite
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‘S an é sin an casúr a bhuail Tríot na tairní
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Nó ‘n í sin an tsleá a chuaigh trí Do lár geal
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A Leinbh, is mor e tualach is leig cuid de ar do Mhathair.
Ochone is ochone o!"
"Iompruiodh gach einne a chrosa, a Mhaithrin."
"Ochone is ochone o!"
Come to me, you two Marys, and keen with me?
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