![]() ![]() ![]() She is said to have been lifted up by the angels seven times each day at the canonical hours and fed heavenly nourishment. Maximin became the first bishop of Aix and Mary Magdalene retreated to a mountain cave on the plain of the Plan d’Aups known as La Sainte Baume (47 AD) where she remained alone for the last thirty years of her life in contemplation, prayer and penance. 1518), Philadelphia, Museum of Art, Johnson Collection. Mary Magdalene Preaching in Marseille (c. Mary Magdalene then went on to Aix where Maximin had already gone, some twenty miles north of Marseille. Lazarus became the first bishop of Marseille. They ended up converting the whole of Provence. Mary Magdalene, Lazarus, Maximin and Cedonius traveled on to Marseille where Mary Magdalene began to preach. Martha traveled towards Avignon and ended up in Tarascon. Mary Jacobe, Mary Salome and Sara remained in Camargue. Low relief, in gold-leafed wood, from the altar of the Rosary in the Basilica of Saint Mary Magdalene, depicts Mary Magdalene and her companions being sent off to sea. Others in the boat included Mary Jacobe, mother of James and the sister of the Virgin Mary, Mary Salome, mother of the apostles James and John, Maximin, one of the seventy two disciples of Christ, Cedonius, the blind man who was miraculously healed by Jesus, Marcelle, Martha’s servant, and Sara, maid of the two Marys.Īfter narrowly escaping death during a storm at sea the boat finally came to shore on the coast of Gaul in a town now called Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in Camargue. The Jews were afraid of the crowd if they were to execute the prisoners so they towed them off the shores of Palestine in a boat without sails or oars or supplies and abandoned them to the open sea. James in Jerusalem (son of Zebedee and Mary Salome), Mary Magdalene, her sister Martha and brother Lazarus were persecuted by the Jews of Jerusalem and imprisoned. Tradition has it that, after the execution of St. Two significant sites of pilgrimage bear witness to this claim: the Basilica of Saint Mary Magdalene in St.-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume and La Sainte-Baume, a mountain cave on the plain of the Plan d’Aups, overlooking the Massif de la Sainte-Baume. There is a widely recognized, time-honored alliance between Mary Magdalene and Provence-South of France. ![]()
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