Saint Sara la Kali is known for her powers to heal and give
success and cleanse the bad habits and problems of your past. She’s a good
Saint to work with if you feel you are being blocked or if you have enemies. You
can also call on her for good luck, fertility, healing, and general success in
business matters.
Legend says that Sara begged for alms to sustain her masters
(the Maries) or perhaps they were just her companions. Sara and the other Maries are connected to
sea ports (especially that in Southern France)
due to stories of her aid in saving the Maries at sea. This and other legends have simply created a
deep and moving mystery around this Saint.
On feast day Sara la Kali is dressed in layers of cloaks
representing the prayers and petitions of all that have come to ask her
help. During her festival, those who
seek her healing and blessings come to touch her skirts, put scarves around her
neck, light candles, and give thanks for miracles and prayers answered. She is petitioned to take away bad habits, bad
luck, poverty and bad health (among many problems)… to take them with her as
the scarves and cloaks that she is wrapped within.
Later, the statue of Saint Sara is carried down to the sea
normally a walk of just a few minutes, but now takes hours due to the throngs
of her followers. The statue is immersed
in the sea taking all the problems out to sea (that were petitioned) and
everyone enters the water as it is now sanctified and they too can be washed of
their problems; it is an act of purification to be washed by the sea after this
ritual. The group is led by elders of
the town on white horses.
I have always thought this feast gathering was so beautiful.
There is so much power and faith involved ... so spiritual... always brings a
tear to my eye.
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