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Key facts
- Born
- Berenice Troglodytica
- Venerated in
- Folk Catholicism
- Major shrine
- Church of the Saintes Maries de la Mer
- Feast
- 24 May
- Patronage
- Romani people
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sara
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Egypt
- Place of birth
- Egypt
- Place of death
- Camargue
- Occupation
- missionary
- Languages spoken
- Egyptian Arabic
- Native language
- Egyptian Arabic
- Image
- Statue de Sainte-Sara.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
Saint Sarah, also known as Sara-la-Kâli ("Sara the Black"; Romani: Sara e Kali), is the patron saint of the Romani people in Folk Catholicism. The center of her veneration is Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, a place of pilgrimage for Roma 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. Saint Sarah also shares her name with the Hindu goddess Kali who is a popular deity in northern India from where the Romani people originate. The name "Sara" itself is seen in the appellation of Durga as Kali in the famed text Durgasaptashati. Despite her popular veneration amongst Romani Catholics, she is not considered a Saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
Accounts
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saint Sarah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.