Sacred sites in Bouches-du-Rhône

Abbey of Saint-Victor

Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Rising fortress-like above Marseille's ancient harbor, the Abbey of Saint-Victor descends through sixteen centuries of unbroken prayer....

Aix Cathedral

Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Rising on the site of the Roman forum of Aix and a sixth-century baptistery, Saint-Sauveur layers nearly two thousand years of sacred history into one building:...

Arles

Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Arles preserves the full arc of Western sacred history within a single city. Roman amphitheatre and theatre gave way to a necropolis where Christians sought burial near...

Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Mer, Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer

Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Notre-Dame-de-la-Mer in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer is a fortified Romanesque church on the Camargue coast holding the relics of Mary Jacobe and Mary Salome, and, in its dark...

Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, Martigues

Martigues, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine stands in Martigues' canal-threaded Île quarter, a 17th-century Baroque parish church dedicated to Mary Magdalene and a waypoint on the...

Notre-Dame de Confession (Our Lady of Confession)

Inside Abbey of Saint-Victor

Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

In the crypt of Marseille's oldest sanctuary, a Black Madonna waits in the half-darkness....

Saint Sarah

Inside Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Mer, Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer

Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Sara-la-Kali—Sara the Black—waits in a candlelit crypt beneath the Church of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. Her origin is mysterious; her significance is clear....