Little is know about Saint Mary of Cleophas. She was one of the Marys who followed Jesus and was at the foot of the cross with his mother Mary, Our Blessed Mother. She was the wife of Saint Cleophas, the mother of Saint James the Lesser.
Legend says that she went by boat with other Jews around the year 47 and sailed to France and landed on an island called les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (”the Holy Marys of the Sea”) because it was named for her, Saint Magdalen, and Saint Mary Salome.
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