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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 [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.
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]
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.
Martyr, Military Saint; who was martyred for refusing to bear an idolatrous standard [286] Fabrician and Philibert: 201–300 22 August Martyrs [286] Faith of Conques: 287 6 October Virgin Martyr; a.k.a. Foy and Fides [286] Faith, Hope, and Charity: c. 137: 17 September Virgin Martyrs; the latter saint a.k.a. Love [286] [287] Felix I: 274 30 May
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 ...
Margaret, known as Margaret of Antioch in the West, and as Saint Marina the Great Martyr (Ancient Greek: Ἁγία Μαρίνα) in the East, is celebrated as a saint on 20 July in Western Christianity, on 30th of July (Julian calendar) by the Eastern Orthodox Church, and on Epip 23 and Hathor 23 in the Coptic Orthodox Church.
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]