PHOTO GALLERY: A ceremony in the southern French town of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer celebrates the reputed landfall, in the first decades A.D., of the two Saints Mary after their flight from the Holy Land.
Pilgrims chant as the shrines descend towards them during the October pilgrimage in the southern France town of Saintes Maries de la Mer on Oct. 19, 2019. Since the mid-15th Century worshippers from the Camargue town of Saintes Marie de la Mer have paid tribute to Sainte Marie Jacobe And Sainte Marie Salome by parading their shrines through town and returning their saints to the sea.
The ceremonial procession from the fortress-like Romanesque church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Mer to the sandy beach, 600 yards away, and knee-deep into the water is a centuries-old tradition that attracts crowds of visitors to this small coastal town. The relics are housed in an ornate chest, or reliquary, adorned with wooden statues of the two Marys which members of the Confrerie des Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer— the lay brotherhood of the Saints Mary of the Sea — carry on their shoulders, accompanied by three horsemen dressed in the traditional attire of local cattle-herders.
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