land by praying. Pilgrimage The day of the pilgrimage honouring Sarah is May 24; her statue is carried down to the sea on this day to re-enact her arrival in France. Some authors have drawn parallels between the ceremonies of the pilgrimage and the worship of the Hindu goddess Kali (a form of Durga), subsequently identifying the two. Ronald Lee (2001) states: If we compare the ceremonies with those performed in France at the shrine of Sainte Sara (called Sara e Kali in Romani), we become aware that the worship of Kali/Durga/Sara has been transferred to a Christian figure... in France, to a non-existent "sainte" called Sara, who is actually part of the Kali/Durga/Sara worship among certain groups in India. The name "Sara" itself is seen in the appellation of Durga as Kali in the famed text Durgasaptashati. In popular culture Some authors, taking up themes from the pseudohistorical book Holy Blood, Holy Grail, suggest that Sarah was the daughter of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. These ideas were popularized by Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, Eron Manusov's Ahavah's Dream, and The Maeve Chronicles by Elizabeth Cunningham. These speculations have been rejected by the local inhabitants and by scholars. In The Rozabal Line, author Ashwin Sanghi puts forward that Sara-la-Kali refers to the three Hindu goddesses – Saraswati, Lakshmi, and Kali – the goddesses of Knowledge, Wealth and Power – symbolizing the trinity of female power. In Paulo Coelho's novel The Witch of Portobello, St. Sarah is mentioned several times. Alistair MacLean's 1970 thriller, Caravan to Vaccarès is set during the pilgrimage to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. Czon the Swedish artist did a portrait of Sara La Kali outside the church in "Saintes Maries de la Mer" 2018. The statue of Saint Sarah makes an appearance in Tony Gatlif's 1993 film Latcho Drom (Safe Journey) where it is carried to the sea, and her landing is re-enacted. In Korkoro, also a Tony Gatlif film, the Romani often pray to Saint Sarah with intense fervor. References Sources de Ville, Franz, Traditions of the Roma in Belgium, Brussels, 1956. Droit, Michel, Carmague. Ernest and Adair Heimann (trans.). London: George Allen and Unwin, 1963. Fonseca, Isabel, Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey. New York: Knopf, 1996. Kinsley, David R. Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition.''' Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Lee, Ronald, "The Rom-Vlach Gypsies and