Sarah was born in Egypt. In some accounts of Sarah, she was a native of Upper Egypt and she appears as the black Egyptian servant of one of the Three Marys, with whom she is supposed to have arrived in the Camargue.
According to various legends, during a persecution of early Christians, commonly placed in 42 AD, Sarah together with Salome, Mary of Clopas, Maximinus of Aix, Lazarus and his sisters, Martha and Mary of Bethany, were sent out to sea in a boat. They arrived safely on the southern shore of Gaul. She died in Camargue, in France.
Sarah was venerated in Christianity. Her feast is on May 24. Saint Sarah makes her first appearance in Vincent Philippon's book The Legend of the Saintes-Maries (1521), where she is portrayed as "a charitable woman that helped people by collecting alms, which led to the popular belief that she was a Gypsy." Subsequently, Sarah was adopted by Romani as their saint (Wikipedia, 2018). She is a patroness saint of all Romani people.
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Book of Ancient Saints: Volume 1
Kurgu OlmayanSaints are people, who are accepted as being holy, religious, and virtuous. In Christianity, more than thousands of saints gave up their life for God or died for Jesus Christ. This volume are true-to-life stories of saints who were born between BC...
