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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 .
Sarah is said to have dwelt in a monastic cell near a large river, likely the Nile, at which she would never look. Her sayings attest that this saint spent her life battling a demon that tempted her to fornication. Records indicate that Sarah lived near Skete in the early to mid-5th century. [3]
Sarah (died c. 303) is a 4th-century martyr venerated as a saint in the Coptic Orthodox Church.She is commemorated on the 25th day of Baramouda (3 May). [1]Unable to baptise her two sons in Antioch on account of the persecutions of the Emperor Diocletian, she took them by boat to Egypt.
Sarah, the nun of Upper Egypt; Sarah, one of the Desert Mother; Sarah and her two Sons, martyr; Sarapamon, archpriest of the Monastery St. John the Dwarf; Sarapamon, bishop of Niku; Sarapamon, the veiled, bishop of El-Monufia; Savories; Serapion, bishop of Thmuis, disciple of St. Anthony the Great and St. Athanasius the Apostolic; Serapion, the ...
Sarah [a] (born Sarai) [b] is a biblical matriarch, prophet, and major figure in Abrahamic religions.While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her character similarly, as that of a pious woman, renowned for her hospitality and beauty, the wife and half-sister [1] of Abraham, and the mother of Isaac.
In John Berryman's Pulitzer Prize winning book of poetry, The Dream Songs, poem 47, subtitled "April Fool's Day, or, St. Mary of Egypt", recounts Mary of Egypt's walk across the River Jordan. "Thrust back by hands of air from the sanctuary door" is the first line of Maria Aegyptiaca , a poem by John Heath-Stubbs about the saint ( Collected ...
Desert Mothers Saint Paula and her daughter Eustochium with their spiritual advisor Saint Jerome—painting by Francisco de Zurbarán. Desert Mothers is a neologism, coined in feminist theology as an analogy to Desert Fathers, for the ammas or female Christian ascetics living in the desert of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria in the 4th and 5th centuries AD. [1]
The relics of Behnam and Sarah are kept at the Monastery of Saints Behnam and Sarah in Iraq. [20] Some relics of the saints are also contained in the Monastery of Saint Menas in Cairo. [21] As well as this, the Syriac Orthodox Church of the Forty Martyrs at Mardin in Turkey purports to contain the remains of Saint Behnam. [22]