Saint Sarah

Here is a short summary of the festival honoring Saint Sarah , also called Sarah la Kali, in Provence. I have not found this saint listed in any Catholic listings (actually, the only Sarah listed in any compilation of saints is the wife of Abraham, and I didn’t think BC saints were strictly kosher). There is, however, even more to the story, as Sarah and the two Marys voyage from the Holy Land to arrive in France…

Another take on the veneration of Sarah la Kali, with some clearer links to the worship of Astarte and some additional confusion thrown in: there is mention of a Roma Sarah (Sarah la Kali) and a Catholic Sarah, who was “expelled from the church” and “didn’t have a right to canonization”. There also don’t seem to be any records of the worship of Sarah la Kali before the mid 1800s.