Le Four des Navettes

This guide to Le Four des Navettes follows a Rue Sainte bakery oven lit in November seventeen eighty-one by a baker named Antoine Lauziere, who started with ordinary bread before shaping dough into small boats for Candlemas. You'll hear the Marseille legend behind that shape, of a boat that once landed Mary Magdalene, Martha, and Lazarus on this coast without oar or sail, and how the recipe passed from owner to owner ever since. Come on the second of February to watch the Archbishop bless the oven itself.