If you find yourself in the South of France this July you can enrich your vacation and your spiritual life by participating in some of the Saint Mary Magdalene feast day festivities surrounding her July 22nd Feast Day. . Feast Day Festivities in Provence … Read more
A Saint Mary Magdalene National Shrine is my DREAM VISION…. My vision board for a Saint Mary Magdalene National Shrine has been on the wall directly over my computer for the past several years. ….to bring Saint Mary Magdalene (her relic) to the United States where it can … Read more
Skull of Mary Magdalene The skull of Mary Magdalene can be found in the South of France in the once Gallo Roman town of Villa Latta or Tégulata, which after the death of Maximin (one of Jesus’ seventy-two disciples), became St. Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume. … Read more
I would like to introduce to you Elizabeth whom I first met in July 2013, as she was one of the pilgrims who flew from Virginia to the South of France for the first Novena Tour of PROVENCE to Saint Mary Magdalene … Read more
For those of you who cannot travel to Provence and climb up to La Sainte-Baume, the “Grotte de Sainte Marie Madeleine” (the Cave of Saint Mary Magdalene), and even higher to Chapel St. Pilon—where tradition says Mary Magdalene was raised up by … Read more
The Novena Tour of PROVENCE to Saint Mary Magdalene is truly an experience of a lifetime. Register before June 1st to secure a spot for this 10-Day Novena Tour. Get to know Saint Mary Magdalene in a very personal way by visiting the … Read more
This nine day Novena to Saint Mary Magdalene comes to you directly from the South of France, Mary Magdalene country. La Sainte-Baume, which means “holy cave” in Provençal dialect, is the name of the Cave where Mary Magdalene spent the last thirty … Read more
Our guests arrived at Marseille Airport in three shifts. First came Sue from Illinois who I met at St. Ita’s in Chicago during the Illinois Relic Tour last February, and Roberta and Peggy who traveled together from Connecticut. We found a comfortable spot in … Read more
We had an early breakfast in a side dining room of the hôtellerie and then boarded our tour bus for a 2 hour drive to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, in time for the 10:30 Sunday Mass at the parish church. Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer is a little fishing … Read more
Today is the official Feast Day of Saint Mary Magdalene. We gathered together at 9:30 in the morning with a few hundred pilgrims that came to the hôtellerie for the procession of the relic of Saint Mary Magdalene (a piece of her … Read more
Today Pascale, our chauffeur or tour bus driver, took us to the lively city of Aix-en-Provence, about a one and a quarter hour drive from the hôtellerie. Its history and numerous monuments accumulated over the centuries have made Aix-en-Provence a prestigious and … Read more
The 8:30 AM daily breakfast at the Hôtellerie-de-la-Sainte-Baume includes a variety of drinks – coffee, tea, hot milk and powdered chocolate, juice and water. There is always toast and french bread, butter and jam spread out on the long family style tables. … Read more
Basilique Sainte Marie Madeleine We started our day traveling to the Basilique Sainte Marie Madeleine in St. Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, a forty-five minute drive from the hôtellerie. We had an appointment with Fr. Sean Davidson, a Missionary of the Most Holy Eucharist. Several years … Read more
Today was a day for contemplation, prayer, solitude, sleeping or doing whatever you wanted to do. - nothing in particular was planned. Some spent some time in the Chapelle Sainte Marie-Madeleine, as our busy schedule the past few days has only allowed us time in the Chapel for Matines and Laudes in the morning and Complies in the evening.
This was Véronique’s day to show us her Provence Verte or Green Provence. We traveled on the bus through Barjols to Cotignac, in the Var. Where exactly is Cotignac? An ancient pigeonnier just below the old Templar Church of St. Etienne, the … Read more
