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The Sainte-Baume (en provençal
Provençal

Proven?al may refer to*Proven?al, meaning "of Provence", a region of France*The Proven?al of the Occitan language, spoken in the south of France...
:Massís de la Santa Bauma according to classical orthography and La Santo Baumo according to mistralian orthography) is a mountain ridge spreading between the départements of Bouches-du-Rhône
Bouches-du-Rhône

Bouches-du-Rh?ne is a departments of France in the south of France named after the mouth of the Rh?ne River....
 and Var in southern France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. Its summit is 1147 metres high.

Mary Magdalene tradition
The French tradition of Saint Lazare of Bethany is that Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene

Saint Mary Magdalene or Mary Magdalene is described, both in the canonical New Testament and in the New Testament apocrypha, as a devoted Disciple of Jesus....
, her brother Lazarus
Lazarus

Lazarus is the name of two separate men mentioned in the New Testament. The more famous one is Lazarus of Bethany, the subject of the miracle recounted only in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus raises him from the dead....
, and Maximinus, one of the Seventy Disciples
Seventy Disciples

The Seventy Disciples or Seventy-two Disciples were early Disciple of Jesus mentioned in the Gospel of Luke . According to Luke, the only gospel in which they appear, Jesus appointed them and sent them out in pairs to spread his message....
 and some companions, expelled by persecutions from the Holy Land, traversed the Mediterranean in a frail boat with neither rudder nor mast and landed at the place called Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer

Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer is the capital of the Camargue in the south of France. It is a Communes of France in the Bouches-du-Rh?ne Departments of France by the Mediterranean Sea....
 near Arles.






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The Sainte-Baume (en provençal
Provençal

Proven?al may refer to*Proven?al, meaning "of Provence", a region of France*The Proven?al of the Occitan language, spoken in the south of France...
:Massís de la Santa Bauma according to classical orthography and La Santo Baumo according to mistralian orthography) is a mountain ridge spreading between the départements of Bouches-du-Rhône
Bouches-du-Rhône

Bouches-du-Rh?ne is a departments of France in the south of France named after the mouth of the Rh?ne River....
 and Var in southern France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. Its summit is 1147 metres high.

Mary Magdalene tradition


The French tradition of Saint Lazare of Bethany is that Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene

Saint Mary Magdalene or Mary Magdalene is described, both in the canonical New Testament and in the New Testament apocrypha, as a devoted Disciple of Jesus....
, her brother Lazarus
Lazarus

Lazarus is the name of two separate men mentioned in the New Testament. The more famous one is Lazarus of Bethany, the subject of the miracle recounted only in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus raises him from the dead....
, and Maximinus, one of the Seventy Disciples
Seventy Disciples

The Seventy Disciples or Seventy-two Disciples were early Disciple of Jesus mentioned in the Gospel of Luke . According to Luke, the only gospel in which they appear, Jesus appointed them and sent them out in pairs to spread his message....
 and some companions, expelled by persecutions from the Holy Land, traversed the Mediterranean in a frail boat with neither rudder nor mast and landed at the place called Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer

Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer is the capital of the Camargue in the south of France. It is a Communes of France in the Bouches-du-Rh?ne Departments of France by the Mediterranean Sea....
 near Arles. Mary Magdalene came to Marseille and converted the whole of Provence. Magdalene is said to have retired to a cave on a hill by Marseille, La Sainte-Baume ("Holy Cave", baumo in Provencal), where she gave herself up to a life of penance for thirty years. The cave is now a Christian pilgrimage site.

Sainte Baume

See also

  • Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume
    Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume

    Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume is a Communes of France of southeastern France, east of Aix-en-Provence, in the westernmost point of Var Departments of France....


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