This vintage French medal of the SAINTES MARIES has been recast. On the reverse is the BASILIQUE built on the spot where the two Marys (Saint Mary Jacobe & Saint Mary Salome) lived in the first century and died. Their relics remain in this church today. Saint Mary Jacobe is the mother of the apostle James the less, who became the first bishop of Jerusalem. Saint Mary Salome is the mother of the apostles John and James the greater.

SAINTES-MARIES-DE-LA-MER is the fishing village where Saint Mary Magdalene and her companions' boat landed in 47AD after being persecuted and thrown out of Palestine. The village is named after the three Marys (Mary Magdalene, Mary Jacobe & Mary Salome) and is in the South of France in the Camargue where the Rhône river meets the Mediterranean Sea.