See an overview of the stories of the Black Madonna at ://www.bookrags.com/wiki/Saint_Sarah/ There, find that there is a servant to the three Mary's, Mary Magdelene, Mary Salome, and Mary "Jacobe". The servant, perhaps, is Sara la Kali, Sara the Black, in some traditions.
Gdansk, Poland. Sara la Kali, patron saint of Roma; or a Black Madonna?At first thought, this painting was, to us, a "Black Madonna," at the Cathedral in Gdansk, Poland. See Europe Road Ways Black Madonnas.
As a madonna, however, this one has no child; has the sunburst symbolism usually seen for saints, and then there is a crescent shape beneath, and other signs surrounding. If you see no picture, click on the box and it should load for you.
Rather than being a Black Madonna, is this Sara the Black, Sara-la-Kali, patron of the Gypsies, the same as Saint Sara, or different. Get an overview at Bogomilia, A Site for the Unsung, Sara the Black. This does appear to be Sara the Black, so far.
Needed: a translation for the symbols surrounding the painting.
Sara the Black, Sara-la-Kali, is at the heart of Gypsy pilgrimages in France, at several places. See //www.geocities.com/~Patrin/stsm01.htm, and post at Europe Road Ways Themes - Roma, Black Madonna. The stories suggest she was with the Maries finding the empty tomb. Perhaps an Egyptian servant to Mary Mother. Someone who saved other saints in France. Who was she. See a good summary of ideas at NationMaster, ://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Saint-Sarah#Tradition/ There the name of Mary Salome appears, as one of the three Marys at the crucifixion, and later ending up on France with Joseph of Arimathea. The site notes at ://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Salome-%28disciple%29 that Mary Salome was considered a "disciple" (how is this different from the "apostle" idea?). And in the now lost Gospel of the Egyptians, she is also a "disciple." See Nationmaster.
Wikipedia //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Saw_Three_Ships.has a variation of a Romany carol, from a Roma family in Brazil, for "I Saw Three Ships," with only Joseph and Mary on board; but other legends have Sara accompanying Mary.
See //en. There is an old version with those on board being 'Our Saviour Christ and His Ladye.' Do a search for I Saw Three Ships verses, and there is a Google book at //books.google.com/books?id=yWEDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA124&lpg=PA124&dq=%22i+saw+three+ships%22+verses&source=web&ots=QJ7dMkJLtq&sig=D9J6esbp9il5ARtTVfKrfOvH1OA#PPA125,M1.
That "ladye" must mean Mary Magdalene, and that would upset some. That version is also at //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Saw_Three_Ships.
And, as a further update to the Salome common name, is this figure of Sara la Kali a a derivation from the Salome story, the woman healer from the hills in the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of James, see Martin Luther's Stove, James' Christmas Prequel, Infancy Gospel of James. Salome: airbrushed out of theology and history. Appears as a name in Mark, at the Crucifixion and witnessing the empty tomb. And in the banned Gospel of James the Just, the Infancy Gospel of Jesus. There, at our presentation of the gospel as a pageant with dialogue, see Salome as the first to be healed by the infant, the first to recognize him, the first to worship. No wonder Rome rejected it, even though it was buttressed to meet dogma requirements in all the virginity ways. With her fiery hand healed by the infant, the Salome of James' attributed account would be highly motivated to stay close and follow. Did she?
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